DEMO 2008 Afternoon sessions
January 30, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business News
The fun kicks off at 2 PM … see you there!
| Live Blog: | DEMO 2008 Afternoon Sessions | (01/30/2008) Powered by: CoveritLive |
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Chris is giving out free stuff … |
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KonoLive www.konolive.com |
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Collaboration sw … little IM-like software … comments pop up on the screen over the document |
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Here is the question … adding comments to a document, but not really editing it? Is that really helpful? |
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Should collaboration SW really be “instant”? |
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chalex … |
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bpdam is the name of the product. Okay, the UI is bad. Terrible, like pre-2000 bad.
Their market is clearly enterprise. Its focus is security, auditing, etc. … Spoke to them Monday night. |
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Huddle is up next … and I’m looking forward to this. Huddle’s new FB app … I tried it yesterday … can really bring business to Facebook. |
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www.huddle.net |
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I’ve used Huddle since Office 2.0 … and adding this FB app … I think it’s really cool |
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Rove Mobile From Ottawa on stage … I saw it action. I couldn’t belive it eventhough I saw it … a Blackberry controling a PC … and seeing the PC screen on the Berry screen. Data transfer you ask … yeah me too. It was minor. Like few hundred k or less. It’s so well optimized they say. Fewer colours, only sending what you need to see when you need to see it. |
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PCMobilizr … I have it on a flash drive they gave me … but haven’t installed it yet. Generally I’m with my computers but … the execution of the tech is so cool I just have to try it. |
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Catalyst Web Services … oh boy a whole office suite via the web. Dunno I’m not stoked about this. I’ve tried similar services, let me replace your usual email client with a web-based system that isn’t even pleasing to the eye.
They are trying to show their differentiating factor that their documents load fast. I didn’t see something that caught my eye. |
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Sterna … business positioning system (BPS) .. ah a business information system with nice graphics. Is that it? |
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asankya … |
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Network optimization … Parallel Networking. Idea here is that you find multiple paths on the global network to get data to-from the users and servers. Traffic is optimized both down and up. This is amazing to see … but who is it for. They are working with InQTel (?) … US intelligence community. Hypermesh is their new product. But the problem is that they haven’t made clear who would be their customers … does this go on the ISP side or what? |
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Kaazing … real time message brokering for the Internet that is scalable. I gather that this is a server level app layer that should make it more efficient. |
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Nirvanix … distributed file storage and delivery. Coupled with tech/sw to adjust the delivery for multiple clients … PCs, mobile, etc.
Customer example FreeDrive on Facebook. Pretty darn cool, upload a basic WMV and the video can be seen in a browser … the format is adjusted on the fly. That’s pretty cool. The data transmition was cool. They made the clear comparison to Akamai … I think the only differateing factor is that Akamai doesn’t do any transcoding. |
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Squidcast video storage and sharing. High quality sharing and transmition. Squidcast handles the conversion of the file format so people can see it regardless. A high def video file was convertered to MP4 … |
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Ah … it uses P2P technology to temporarily use client drive space to distribute. |
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This has some potential … Shel and I will try |
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Yoics … Controlling and managing web-accessable devices, through an IM-like client.
Shared folders become virtual servers … I’m impressed. The file sharing, this without configurations on the network. Music streaming sounded very good. There is a mobile client or mobile capable. looking at a document on an iPhone was nice. The shared camera is streaming, and tied to the camera device, not the computer. |
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delver … formerly semingo … user assisted search …
You do a search and it checks your query against information people in your social networks. This could be really valuable to revealing what you need to know from your friends who already know it. |
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HealthPricer … Expedia for Health (and they are Canadian … from Vancouver no less!)
Got a look at this too. You search for a health product, say vitamins or contact lenses, and they find the places to buy it and how much it is at various resellers. |
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[Comment From Andy] Delver looks very promising, but the demo seems like it isn't ready for prime time yet |
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@Andy yes … a tad rough, real potential though for finding information. |
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www.healthpricer.com |
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HealthPricer told me that they focused on the States first, but can make versions for different countries and even different verticals (beyond health … electronics?) |
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Eyealike simple and clean demo. They are trying to solve the copyright issue by being able to search through social media websites against a library of “real” content. It is very, very sophisitcated. Amazing actually. I think, however, it is for companies to buy and use against you and I.
Is this wrong? No, of course not. Actually a consumer version of this for folks like me who take lot of pictures and post on Flickr. I’d love to know if my pics are being used in ways that I don’t allow through my CC lisense. |
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SiloBreaker www.silobreaker.com |
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Very, very cool technology. I have to play with it. The example of searching for Davos and pulling out results that don’t match or are relavant … and see the relationship among all the results. |
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Circos … focused search. Me-centric search. Basically it learns about you, like through your Facebook profile (through their app). Right now just resturants and hotels … and I think just in the States. |
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Given a lot of these new search tools … would you try these over Google? |
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Jodange … looking at the sentiment of opinion on a topic or issue. |
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WOW! SiloBreaker … play with it! Now! Really! |
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AfraGadget Panel: Technology is picking up on Africa … I had no idea. It’s amazing. The use of tech to do good things. Things that make peoples’ lives better. What a concept. |
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4:34
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How important is the $100 laptop? Is it important? More important than the basics that are also urgently needed?
But is getting kids into technology at a young age building a future for them? |
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4:35
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Balkanization of Net by cultural nuances |
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What is the role of the First World in the development of the Third? |
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4:42
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South Africa has the lead … because its economy is ahead, but this doesn’t mean that Kenya is far behind. Maybe just a little seed money could launch a great company with a great idea. |
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Cell phone signal “in the middle of no where” … cell towers powered by wind and solar. Pay as you go has opened the market to many … no contract, ease of entry. Mobile is growing fast in Africa. |
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No handouts, no kid gloves … real advice. Real critiques. Don’t hold back. That’s the advice from Mike Stopforth |
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That’s a wrap folks! Next might be live DEMOGod awards. |
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This Live Blog has now ended.
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DEMO 2008 Day 2 Morning Conference
January 30, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business News
Less chatter, but still live …
| Live Blog: | DEMO 2008 Day 2 Morning | (01/30/2008) Powered by: CoveritLive |
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Good morning from DEMO08 Day 2! Chris Shippley did a great morning dance, with giving away free software … got us going.
BitGravity is talking about their streaming service. Which many of you have been watching. Did you know it was in HighDef? Yeah no kidding. It’s amazing |
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Will streaming HighDef video over the net change things dramatically?
Yes, omg, yes No way Someday, not now |
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Cozimo, from Montreal and CA is on stage talking about their interactive, collaborative fim-making. So I guess like ConceptShare for video. Think about that. Looking at Cozimo www.cozimo.com/ – very interesting tech to see the collaboriative video process |
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xtranormal, also from Montreal, on stage. I got a demo from them yesterday … www.xtranormal.com Very easy to use, the auto camera stuff is fun … now okay this is amazing stuff … but what is the market? Who will really use it? It seems to me (fitting since Shel Israel is sitting next to me) … that Canada is really leading the way in animation and 3D |
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Capzles on stage … more video. This is for building an online video diary. Videoblogging … in timelines … etc. Flash-based interface. Good, but … yeah not a solid demo … I didn’t get the answer to the “yeah so…” question. |
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HubDub … I’ve be hearing buzz about them.
This is a service for forcasting news … what will the future hold. |
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www.hubdub.com |
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They guys started good … but why do I want to try to predict the news? What should I do this on their site. Maybe I’m a cynic. Okay, I am a cynic. Sorry I’m not getting it … They are saying I can use this to “prove” my credibility? Isn’t that what my writing does? |
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iLeonardo … on stage. Umm where is the demo part? |
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www.ileonardo.com |
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iLeonardo … this is search with social bookmarking. Okay you’re building notebooks of information to share and gather. I’ll get an invite code to try it. The demo didn’t do it for me. |
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www.atlaspost.com |
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Blogging with geography … the question is why. Okay … be blunt. We’re hot in Taiwan give us money in the States … and we’ll be big in China. |
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youchoose.net/ |
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YouChoose … how will this succed where CoComment failed? |
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Buzka PopNets .. another notebooking, searching … focusing on travel … popnets.com/ |
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Redux social networking and online dating … meeting new people. Connecting people who don’t know each other. |
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redux.com/ |
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Here is the essential problem. Building more and more social networks, isn’t all that helpful. Sure Redux might help you find people who share similar interests, but gee I already do that. Again … this is a critical mass issue |
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9:43
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W00t! Standout Jobs is in the house! |
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“HR isn’t about Human Resources, it’s about human relationships.” — Ben Yoskovitz |
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I got an early look at this offering called Reception. It is great. Having had to help HR build career sites — it sucks. I like the fast and easy layout options. It’s fun, interesting and lets people get an inside look at companies. |
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Yes, I’m biased. I’ve know and worked with Ben for nearly two years. I think he’s sharp and cool. I chatted with him this morning in the press room … gave him tips on presenting–doesn’t look like he needed them! Great job! |
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www.standoutjobs.com |
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Liquidus Corp … video creation and sharing. |
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The product is called Spotsense … yeah, bad demo. Sorry guys, you lost me |
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TubeMogul on stage … listening |
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Interesting … upload through them … send your video to multiple places and give you analytics on them across the site. |
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Just closed their Series A VC round … didn’t say how much. It looks really interesting. Wonder … hmm |
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Visible Measures … analytics for video. See how people are interacting with video. How it’s being watched and where it’s going online. This is an umet need for sure.
Hmm, parters with BrightCove … which is doing the video I guess … wow gelocating where people are watching. |
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You know this it pretty darn cool, of course I’m a stats wonk … but I liked what I saw. |
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PCHealth Check … I got their demo at their space. I dunno … you run their free app and it it scans your machine for problems, etc. then recommends changes. I can’t remember if it supports Vista. |
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The thing that scares me about these auto scanning fixing things is that sometimes they make things worse because they are based on general assumptions. |
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No link to PCHealthCheck ’cause you can’t get to it! Dude, lame. |
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Pathworks Software … providing customer service help |
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Helpstream … how is this better. You need to answer that question in your demo. Helpstream is integrating “crowdsourced” help (forums, etc) … okay so what it means that customer support can flag an answer as the best answer from the community. So if this is tied into their support ticket system … I can see that this would be helpful. Now, the question is … is that a good thing? How good are their forums? Wouldn’t it be better if they just tied into standard forums? |
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Wow, Helpstream … is free? www.helpstream.biz |
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Okay, how, pray tell, will they earn money? What are they selling? |
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supportspace www.supportspace.com |
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This is a little different … people register as “experts” and they help people … and sometimes for cash. Risky? What do you think? |
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To any new readers … you can comment live in this little window thingy |
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Would you use and online support tool to fix your computer
Yes, I am a computer idiot Hands off buddy |
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[Comment From Keith from CiL] Hey Tris. Just opened up some popcorn. Kicking back watching this. Like the pics. |
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[Comment From Keith from CiL] Guru.com 1999 |
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[Comment From akshay] what do people think of http://www.tvduck.com |
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Aternity, another support solution. You know I didn’t get their “I’m different because ..” |
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MANDIANT … eek the Internet is a scary place! Oh no there is stuff that spyware and anti-virus can’t find and clear! |
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“Find evil, do good, justice … ” |
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MANDIANT … okay their solution is a box. This is an enterprise solution … but what about the people who work at home or connect remotely? |
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Should MANDIANT release a consumer product to find evil?
Yes, like yesterday Eh, why bother |
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Symantec is up next … I’m not a fan of their software … always bogs things done. Their solution is a “family safety initiative” … |
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[Comment From Jevon] Great work Tris!! |
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Thank you Jevon! |
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This sw needs to be installed on every computer in the house. Oh boy another Symantec product to slow down everyone in the house. Charming. |
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10:49
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In my house, the kids’ computer is in my line of sight. I keep tabs on what is going on … you know this is about trust. Dad being able to block specific people on IM … keep tabs on Facebook, etc too … |
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I’m not sure about this. I know it’s important … but I’m not sure that this is the answer |
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good2gether … helping collecting people to non-profits to volunteer. www.good2gether.com |
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[Comment From Andy] They've got good branding. their tshirts' call to action: DoGood |
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[Comment From Keith from CiL] Tris, how many of the demos in the last two days have some sort of charming cutout of a person involved in their logo/homepage…got to be 65% |
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Yes, non-profits suck at online marketing. Yes, they need help. Yes it would be great to help them more …
This is why I just help organizations I like … whatever they need, they get my time. Simple as that. |
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DoGood is a great slogan. And I think we should all consider how we can help? What organization that you support could use even a little SEO help? How about a nice WP-powered website? |
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Yeah I guess that the cardboard cut out seems to be the style du jour. |
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10:58
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And this is wrap for the morning … Chris is just wrapping up. |
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Thanks to all of you who have been reading along, and esp people who have commented. Catch you after lunch! |
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This Live Blog has now ended.
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Few Thoughts on DEMO 2008, Day 1
January 29, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business News
Day 1 of DEMO is in the can and … wow what a day of contrasts. There were some awesome demos–apps or services you start to try before the six minutes are up–and those you just have a WTF moment.
There were a couple presentations that didn’t go as well as planned (including a softly uttered f-bomb) and others that were polished and flawless. That is, of course, the way it is at conferences. However DEMO is different. Selected companies have to pay $19,000 to be here and present for 6, yes 6, minutes. That’s a ton of pressure. Most presentations were heavily scripted. Like high school drama club production scripted. I understand, but it makes you have to look beyond the presenter and more at the app. Not an easy task.
Marshall hammered out a great post during the morning session while sitting next to men–The Pros and Cons of DEMO - ReadWriteWeb. And he waxed melodic about Sprout’s new SproutBuilder–SproutBuilder: You’ve Got to See This Drag and Drop Widget Maker (go and sign up ASAP before they close down the semi-open beta)–during the afternoon session.
All this time when other bloggers and journalists were working on one great post (which then is on Techmeme, etc) … I live blogged the morning session at DEMO and the afternoon session at DEMO. Which is making me wonder…what if I did what Shel Israel and Graeme Thickins are doing which is to just tweet the sessions and have their mental energy for later.
While CoverItLive did a great job for me today … blogging for a solid three hours is rough. I don’t think I will do it again tomorrow. I’ll take notes (liberal use of SnagIt and OneNote I think) and just use Twitter for my thoughts on each demo.
In the morning, when my brain has had a chance to recharge, I’ll reflect on yesterday’s presenters and look at what is coming up as well.
Today only one Canadian company, SceneCaster, presented, tomorrow it’s the remaining 5.
I’m also slowly getting the hang of the video camera. Remembering to check the battery in the mic and that it’s actually on … good things when interviewing.
Those videos will be up … no earlier than the weekend, but yeah I got some good ones.
Until then … see you in the morning.
DEMO 2008: Afternoon sessions
January 29, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business News
For at least a little while I’m going to hang out in the press room and watch the streaming video. Yeah I won’t get as many pictures, but I have a hard wire connection.
| Live Blog: | Afternoon Session at DEMO | (01/29/2008) Powered by: CoveritLive |
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I decided that I’d upload pics to flickr with the media only hardline instead of going into the sessions. Three hours is a long time. |
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I’m going to watch the live stream and hope that I can hear well enough. Looks like things are getting off to a slow start. |
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BTW … if you’re reading this page live … and I hope you ar. Please feel free to enter a comment, answer the polls, etc. |
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Chris says the afternoon sessions about simplicity. And Chris is bang on … making something simple is extremely hard. |
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LiquidTalk … making podcasting easy. |
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Why is he wearing his Bluetooth headset? |
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Would you like to have movies and podcasts on your mobile phone?
Totally! Hit me baby! No, my phone is still a brick Eh, not really. |
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Software as a service … and this is all about pushing content to mobile devices. Is the future all mobile? I don’t know if I’d like to watch this stuff on something as small as a phone. |
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They are announcing today there service/software now works on the Blackberry. |
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Sure it looked great, but I don’t know. In Canada the data rates would kill you. |
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Zodico … mobile content on demand. Again … why … is this the centre of the universe? |
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Okay I can get a coupon from Dominos … I’m still unconvinced |
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You know the ordering a 100 pizzas from Dominos on stage is just, well, tired. Sorry. Maybe I’m jaded. |
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116 of 191 photos from this morning up on Flickr … In case you’d like to see ;) |
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voyant … financial planing .voyant@home financial planning and what if anaylsis. Will this be the Mint of DEMO 2008? |
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Oh of course it’s free. |
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I shouldn’t make fun, considering I could use this kind of help. |
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This does look like simple what if analysis to try to match your income to your dreams (buying a house, kids to University, retiring in style) |
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So the revenue model here, I would gather, is that they have sold some software to financial planners who then offer advice to the people using the free software. |
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People are winning stuff on stage (Zune, MSFT sw ) whew I wasn’t called. ;) |
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Review2Buy … |
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okay … this product … another mobile one is geared to helping pick things to buy … while you’re in the store. You text a query … like a make and model of a camera or a wine … and get reviews SMSed back to you. |
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You know this sounds groovy … The service also can do comparison shopping … are you getting the best price.
Useful service for sure. So I wouldn’t want to get sales training videos on my phone, but making sure I buy the right thing at the right price … that’s cool. |
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I case you’re wondering … yes, I’m going to put links up to today’s companies later today. |
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Electronic health records … Acesis is trying to make EHRs better because they had doctors help design it. Still going to be a tough sell. Yes, pen and paper is easy … and portible and doesn’t break you drop it on the floor (like a tablet PC). |
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Now I will say that this can provide real value to patients and doctors … why? Gee I don’t even have to wait for his answer … just pulling things together is important. |
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BTW … the pics from the morning are all up now. |
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Now I’m back in the session room watching the blist demo … this is a web-based visual database builder. As we were talking about at lunch … Zoho Creator, Dabble DB, Filemaker … Google Base … will a nice ui let it win the day? |
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ecrio … mobeam. Beam barcodes into a device I think … this is supposed to make using coupons easier … tied into barcodes. Ah, this device uses a fast-flickering LED instead of a laser (whew because that might be problematic). Another device to carry. Oh good it’s keychain sized. |
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The device receives offers from retailers and looks like an iPod-ish thing. They are taking the green angle (no paper used or wasted) … I can deal with that. Now, is the device free? |
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On the retailer side .. they can adopt it without changing HW or SW. It could have potential, but I don’t think I’d buy one. Rather retailers support by giving them to consumers … a loyalty program-esque. |
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CellSpin … sending content from your phone to your social media site of choice.
Sending video to an ebay auction … that’s pretty new. The technology is ad supported … after you post the item, you are shown an ad. Seems fair. |
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Another send media to from phone to the social media world … Utterz, Seesmic … how many other services do this? Is there room for them? I wonder if really the cool bit is the tech behind the scenes. |
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And we’re moving into the world of content creation … |
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Flypaper … presentations to flash .. they want want to make Flash easy.
Create stories with templates … they call the “models” … like almost a scrapbooking app. The idea is not having to program in Flash … |
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The example is building an interactive resume. It does look pretty cool. Okay … this takes your typical powerpoint and makes it pretty cool. If this takes off could powerpoint get even more wild? |
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As you’d expect the next demo is taking the resume model/template and making it a marketing presentation. Frankly, if you can use PowerPoint … this would be easy. |
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Okay … why is Flypaper totally free? They don’t explain that … that’s a question at the booth I think. |
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GoldMail … hmm more interactive email. It is also like a Flash thing .. rich media email messaging … |
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GoldMail Business is their new product … I gather is a white labeled v of GoldMail. There is a client app for you to use. Creation looks simple. You upload the file to their servers, then get a link and embed code … send the link via email and … |
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Now while this is great, and the players is slick (basically a flash player) … still might not get you to open the email. |
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sprout … web-based, drag and drop why to create Flash files. Pretty slick. |
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Now the widget, and this is cool, you post it, host, it somewhere, but when users look at it … you can copy the embed code too … |
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so the whatever (they are using Ben Harper as an example) the object you build can become viral. I have to say, while I’m getting pretty stale on web-based techs … yeah I know. Regardless, a Flash development is expensive and buying the software yeah … you see. So this might be a great way to do something hot and then move on… |
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GreenPlug … trying to make a universal power thing. They make a chip, and give it away, that goes in the device (iPod, laptop, camera, etc) and then it would “talk” to a GreenTalk power supply and supply only the power needs for as long as it’s needed. |
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While this might not seem cool and sexy … how many power supplies do you carry around? I have at least three with me all the time. Imagine carrying only one … Now the manufacturers have to get it into devices… |
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Celsias … I talked with them earlier today before lunch. |
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www.celsias.com/ they want to help people start and fund projects to help save the planet. You all know that global climate change was my academic passion, clearly this is up my alley. |
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So your project can be used to communicate or raise money for a project. |
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[Comment From Keith from CoveritLive] Hey Tris. This one is nice work. Nice chunks of commentary. Not so rushed. Found your groove… |
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[Comment From Keith from CoveritLive] When we went looking for a domain name, we quickly learned that 'Fahrenheit' and 'Celsius' were not available, so we next looked for derivatives of those two words, and a bright spark came-up with 'Celsias' |
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The platform is flexible … and the revenue model appears to be ad supported. That’s okay. And coming soon is a marketplace to sell green products. The marketplace is a great idea.
Imagine being able to get a class involved with some ecological idea … and raising awareness about it. Looks simple and fun. Note to self, tell kids’ teachers about this… |
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Panel discussion time … turning ideas into innovations… |
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This reminds me of the book the myth of innovation. That was a great read. It is true … yes I have those moments that could be called “ah ha!” … but really it is the product of getting lots of pieces and finally finding the connector. That stroke of inspriation tends to come to me when I least expect it.
My last challenge was getting a custom comment form for a blog/website. Some categories needed one comment form, another a different one. i tried if , else out the wazoo … but couldn’t get it to work … then … boom. Remembering a another bit of code … remembering a file name … poof I had my answer and it took only minutes to put into place. |
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When do you get your ideas…
as I’m sleeping in the shower on a walk doing a mundane task |
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This neo-natal device to teach preemies to nurse/suck properly … wow. Might seem like something that you’d just know (i.e. how to eat) … however it is a learned behaviour that partially comes in later in gestational development. |
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app2you … another quick web-based DB creator. Not as sexy as the one from earlier … blists … |
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Sprout … it looks cool. Marshall is waxing melodic about it … URL: sproutbuilder.com |
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Yes … I’ve been taking a pause from typing here to Tweet … yeah I’m the ADD poster boy. |
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Okay … I know this person is smart and is on the panel … but he’s showing off his start up for MUCH MUCH more than 6 mins … I hope he paid. It really wouldn’t be fair to other companies. Esp. if they are also in the competition. On the plus side the apps isn’t that exciting. Nor is his talk. |
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Now the key to anything that starts as an idea to make it real … is hard work. And luck. |
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The innovation comes from collaboration … of course the missing piece to a puzzle is often something from the outside that you don’t think is even close to related. If you’ve seen the Shell Oil commercial about oil drilling … the idea coming from a bendy straw … that’s inspiration. That’s innovation. You mind … must be open. You must be able to see the bigger picture.
And be ready to be hit over the head with the idea. It doesn’t, usually, hurt |
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And now back to the DEMO demos … |
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Citrix … XenDesktop … virtual machines. The idea is that users don’t notice … umm what is it running on? |
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Okay, instant on. Everything is running on machines in the data center … but … it has to use something. … Monitors don’t run on their own.
I guess it’s somekind of thin device … need an app … it just runs. No installs. Access from anywhere. I guess it can’t be used offline, eh? |
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Now … what if you had a light laptop running some kind of micro OS … then sync when connected … yeah I guess nort |
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Up next … StackSafe. They linked here last week. I was wondering what they do… |
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StackSafe TestCenter so you have to patch your server … instead of pushing it live … you can do a virtual rollout … and see if it will wrecksomething.
Yeah good idea. Now, I’ve never rolled out a “fix” to a website and taken it down. I’ve never tweaked a server config file live and taken down about 6 websites … Yeah right. |
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For a lot of you ready this … maybe not you Brian of the b5 tech team (you’re still reading right?) … |
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SceneCaster! A Canadian company! Finally!
W00t! |
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[Comment From Brian] Oh yea, of course I am! |
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[Comment From Brian] Are you trying to imply something about the occasional roll out issues? meh Issues never happen… |
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Nope Brian … but of all the things I’ve seen today you might be interested in that |
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So you can even look at it on things like an iPod Touch. And soon launching SceneCaster Japan! |
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I see this being big in Japan. I don’t know about me … I’m not that artistic… |
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LiveScribe … pulse smart pen. Write notes, record them to the computer … do you have to use special paper … I love to jot and doodle. Oh wow … live audio recording as you’re taking notes … that could be very cool for a meeting. |
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I’ll have to give this a try … of course that’s what everyone is thinking too. |
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I can imagine doing this mapping out ideas … something that I always want to do. So the paper is special and will be sold for the same price as regular note books and the pens … $100-$200 |
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And up next … Seesmic! |
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I gather that Seesmic is now open beta … and I gather Loic LeMeur is going to talk about a new mobile client.
Ooops first try recording didn’t work! All the beta service. |
| 4:48 | [Poll] |
Would you buy the LightScribe pen?
Yes! No, I like kickin’ it old skool No, the special paper is a turn off Gimme one! |
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I did several Seesmic videos ..and thought it was really cool. Loic describes Seesmic as the CNN of my friends.
So the mobile phone … demoed on the N95. Cool Kosso gets a shout out for his Seesmic search (madly looking for link to him…) |
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One last demo … oh dear Chris started the intro with talking about Facebook. This doesn’t bode well … MOLI … ah a social networking site where you have multiple profiles! |
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This has been one of my main gripes with Facebook, your public persona, work persona, and private persona can start to blur together.
So moli lets you decide if a type of profile (student ,work, family, etc) … is public, private, or even hidden (so people don’t find out about your secret tea cozy fetish). |
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Wow this profile reminds me of a cross between Netvibes/Pageflakes and Facebook. Seems a little more “grown up” than Facebook. |
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I can’t imagine having to do these presentations in 6 mins. No wonder people are reading most of the time. It’s all timed and such. |
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iVideotunes … a new way to learn music. Wow you get lessons by watching greats like Graham Nash … they’ve worked out licenses with the publishers. They accurate, original, and taught by the artist … |
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Non-DRM … view anywhere. |
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W00t! John Oates of Hall and Oates … teaching us “She’s Gone” |
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Listening … as should you |
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And that’s a wrap |
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Like the irony of the Talking Heads … Same as it ever was |
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I think my last comment on the iVideotunes didn’t get through …
Basically I don’t know how much the service costs, but to learn from the greats … wow. |
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Time to do some video! Catch you on the flipside! |
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This Live Blog has now ended.
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Canadians at DEMO–Good stuff and I’ll be looking for them!
January 25, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business News
I got my press info for DEMO next week. The DEMO08 conference schedule looks amazing, but it’s the presenters who people come to see, right? While there are some really excellent companies from around the world, my focus is on Canadians. Here’s the list:
- HealthPricer Interactive, Ltd.; Vancouver, BC; www.healthpricer.com
- Rove Mobile, Inc.; Ottawa, Ontario; www.rovemobile.com
- SceneCaster; Richmond Hill, Ontario; www.scenecaster.com
- Standout Jobs, Inc.; Montreal, Quebec; www.standoutjobs.com
- xtranormal, Inc.; Montreal, Quebec; www.xtranormal.com
Rob beat me to the post about who will be at DEMO. But no hard feelings.
I’ve contacted everyone (well I’ve known Ben for a while so I’ve got the scoop — hee hee) and well be setting up time to get demos and interviews. In fact you won’t just just be reading my posts or checking out my pictures ….
I’m the newest addition to Intruders.tv (Canada)!
I’ll be covering tech, mostly here on the West Coast, but I’ll make it East once and a while.
I’ll be linking to the interviews that go with the posts here (and vice versa). This is my first time doing video. Writing, check, no problem. Photography. Yep and getting better. Audio. No big deal. Video … yikes!
I’m sure that the first couple will be rough, but I’ll practice, don’t worry.
Now…what to pack…
