Breaking down DEMO’s social footprint

Breaking down DEMO’s social footprint

I’m back from the DEMO 2009 conference — a whirlwind, two-day immersion in technology trends, startup concepts and new investment strategies. Hundreds of VCs, engineers and executives descended on Palm Desert, Calif. earlier this week to demo their products, network, party and participate in the next wave of innovation.

It only makes sense to turn to social technology to gauge the conference’s influence on its followers and the broader tech community. To do so, I used… Continue Reading

DEMO: Cc:Betty makes email easier for collaboration

DEMO: Cc:Betty makes email easier for collaboration

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A new company called Cc:Betty is making it a lot easier to follow email conversations.

Ever get fed up with tracking threads in your email inbox? Google’s Gmail was early to track conversation threads, but if you’re like me, it’s confusing, or at the least bothersome: You have to open the threads and scan through them all each time.

Cc:Betty, of Palo Alto, Calif., offers a single view of an entire conversation, and an overview of any… Continue Reading