DEMO 2006 - (Fake) Day 2
»From the demo part of the brain.
It’s been a pretty crazy day (not being) at DEMO 2006. (Not actually) Going to this event has taught me a lot about what makes a great demo. Here is the remaining review of the companies and their services or products:
- : Here’s the use case: Someone calls you on Skype (PC). EQO’ installed software routes the call to your handset, all this without high-speed wireless or being on a 3G network.
- Transparensee: It looks like another discovery/recommendation engine. Understanding relationships between items is complicated. Take restaurants for instance. It’s easy to recommend restaurants based on genres, or cars based on specifications, but what about dating? Hair color–brunette, eyes–brown, height–5’ 6”, ok, and what about chemistry? How do you recommend chemistry?
- Nexidia: Audio mining; speech analytics; NLP. Freaking Cool!
- Kosmix: I’ve also been hearing a bit of buzz about Kosmix’s subject- oriented search engine. For now, the three subjects are health, travel, and politics. I hope to see more subjects like real estate, or automobile repair, or even a legal search (sort of like Westlaw).
- Truveo: Video search. It’s like without the community, the videos, or the remotely accurate search engine.
- Panoratio Database Image: A technology spun off by Siemens. Put confusingly, it’s a tool that can reduce the size of the result set without losing any details. I’d like to hear what sort of mathamagical compression algorithms they are using since it sounds too impressive.
- Sproutit: It seems like an email management service for small businesses. It reminds me of . I have to admit, I didn’t know there was a demand for outsourced email management.
- Eeminder: No, not reminding, eeminding. They push “reminders” to your cell phone. I can’t even pretend to be excited about technology like this.
- Iotum: Looks like a highly configurable rules engine that can route incoming office calls to IM, email, your calendar, your companie’s bluetooth enabled toaster, etc, etc. I guess this is perfect for the kind of person that get’s a ton of calls. To do all this, the software taps into your company’s IP-PBX. Sounds neat.
- Open Connect: Old and busted: “Mainframes and green screen” New hotness: “Web-based UIs and web services”. soaComprehends takes your mainframe interactions and builds a custom web-application that optimizes your user mainframe interactions. If you know what all of that means, I feel truly sad for you.
- Sharpcast: Transparently share photos between your PC and your phone. I guess this would rock if your phone has a lot of memory and a nice screen.
- LocaModa: I text message a phone number, and the message appears on a medium. (See live example).
- BroadRampCDS: “BroadRamp CDS™ Content Delivery System is the world’s first multimedia content delivery system that delivers a broad spectrum of media by converting existing content into online interactive multimedia.” Let me translate: “Broad spectrum” = AVI, MPEG, DIVX, XVID. “Online interactive multimedia” = “Flash, whatever the latest version is”.
- Vizrea: Looks like another cell phone photo management service. Looks like they are exclusively running on Nokia phones.
- Smilebox: An online scrapbook service. I hope it’s simple enough to use. My gut feeling tells me that it sounds like the sort of software that should run on the desktop, as opposed to on the web.
- Newsgator: I like where Newsgator is going: feed ubiquity. They released a Hosted Solution service.
- VividSky: “Have you ever found yourself sitting at a sporting event with your attention away from the action only to hear the roar of the crowd?” No, not really. I suppose if you were to put wireless access points in football stadiums, accessing unlimited game content was the next logical thing to do. I’d like to see a real fan do this.
Let me put my beer down, shove my popcorn under my left armpit, lick my fingers clean, whip out the latest Treo 700w, and "access" that content. . Meanwhile, the play is being shown over and over again on 10 of the 50 ginormous overhead projectors, and my buddy is screaming at me for spilling the beer. Right. - Simplefeed: I wish the website cut down on the ROI talk, and focused on getting me signed up. From the “About” page, it looks like an RSS manager (like Azos AI: Looks like two products which convert your phone into SUPER CRISIS PHONE during an emergency.
- StrikeForce: “WebSecure’s breakthrough technology proactively stops keylogging programs by encrypting keystrokes at the keyboard level and rerouting them directly to your browser.” Cute. My beef: it works only under Internet Explorer; it’s a bandaid covering the real problem–that you have a keylogger; and if someone really wanted your keystrokes, they could tap into the browser and read every FORM input field on the webpage. Quite a false sense of security
- MI5: A rack mountable unit capable of detecting spyware traffic, spyware in webpages, spyware in “phone home” applications, spyware infections, and pretty much any sort of malware in your enterprise. It sounds incredibly comprehensive. I’d like to see it in action.
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