DEMO: Neverend Media to bring multimedia and social features to subscription-based e-books
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: BrandFolium offers online marketplace for social networking ads
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 (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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Uppy Media urges fashionistas to tag their looks
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Mmatcher wants to bring classified ads to mobile market
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Zerista hopes its mobile community tools will end-run the pack
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Immitter makes it easier for indie music artists to get discovered
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: AppVoyage expands its ad-building toolbox with AppBlox (video)
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Flinc unveils real-time mobile ride sharing system
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: My6Sense opens up its filtering smarts to developers
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Voxofon Ambit to help parents protect kids using cell phones
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 … Continue Reading
Roxio CinemaNow scores next-day web publishing rights for new TV shows
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 … Continue Reading
Proof that video games are a universal language: Iranian team creates a cool game
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 Whac-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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Supercool School wants to be the Ning of online education
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.… Continue Reading
DEMO: Restaurant 2.0 reservation system challenges OpenTable
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: GlideTV launches What's On channel for web videos on TV
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: MightyMeeting keeps your A-game close, your Powerpoint closer
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Gwabbit creates a universal contact list in the cloud
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Widgetbox's ClickTurn Ad Builder marries rich ads and real-time web
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: Airset brings cloud computers to groups and individuals
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 … Continue Reading
DEMO: MagInify Call Center can detect customers' moods
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 … Continue Reading
