OK, 30 company presentations so far. Ten more to go. There were also about 100 more companies in the demo area. This is geek heaven.
Rich Media and Mash Ups
Xtr3D - Extreme reality, 3D human interface to computers. Real time analysis of human gestures that can control applications on your computer. For example, you can move your hand in or out to make a map zoom in or zoom out. It could also be used to make game characters move around the screen instead of using a joystick. You can assign physical gestures to certain application actions. It of course requires a camera to see your gestures and the Xtr3D software to interpret your gestures.
BroadClip - Scans Internet radio for music you want on your phone, iPod, Zune. It uses time shifting to capture music from web radio stations. It operates like Tivo for music. You tell Broadclip what kind of music you like. You can use Facebook to see what music your friends like as well. Broadclip will find music for all those artists. You can easily transfer this music to an iPod or any other MP3 player. Song tweaker can adjust the song begining and end points to edit out commercials or "voice overs". Remember, Broadclip is downloading (time shifting) music from Internet radio stations. Broadclip will make money by inserting ads into the streams. My Napster experience tells me they are likely to run into legal problems at some point. Their lawyers are convinced they are in good shape. Time will tell.
mEgo - a site to share all your personal photos, notes, social network stuff. Megos are interactive portable profiles. An avatar that takes all your personal feeds and information that you can share anywhere. You can add animations to the avatar and expose information such as photos, videos, wish lists, and other content from social sites like Facebook. The personal avatars can be customized with hair styles, clothes, and animations. You can put your mEgo on your cell phone and use them as wallpaper.
Wixi - All your media stored in one place. A media home page to store all your media, photos, videos, etc. You view, play, edit, and share the content. Uses a flash player to display and play content. There are several startups going after this idea of consolidating your content. They are all basically the same, and I don't really see a sustainable business model for this idea.
BeFunky - Funky avatars and ways to express yourself. Take a photo and convert it to an avatar. Customize the avatar with colors, shading, effects and animations. Sort of like an online photoshop service, but easier to use.
Entertainment
FlowPlay - social entertainment platform for social games. FlowPlay is a part social network, part avatars and animation, and part game player, all in one environment. Flowplay is a lot like SecondLife too. Avatars that interact with each other, with text boxes for messages, sort of like a cartoon. Pretty cool.
Areae - AKA MetaPlace - This one looks a lot like the last one. It is a virtual world platform like SecondLife where you can play games, build social networks, and share content. MetaPlace can also be a Facebook or MySpace widget. Tagging, ratings, reviews, wikis, tools, all the Web 2.0 goodies wrapped into one environment.
WooMe - Online speed dating platform with browser based voice and video. Meet people anytime anywhere. Woome has session areas that are focused on special topics like "looking for travel partners to China", or "Intelligent and blonde in California"...not many participants in that one for some reason. The sessions connect to live video sessions where you can meet people in a speed dating context. Each person decides if they want to exchange contact information, meet online again later, or never hear from them again.
Zivity - A site for glamour shots of beautiful women. They pay out over 40% of their revenues to their content providers which are essentially models. They do include nudity, so be careful about visiting this site. Moderators at Zivity review the content to make sure it is high quality and not too risque. Users vote on which photos they like best. The photos are available for sale.
Kaltura - The winner from the demo area was Kaltura. They have 20 employees. A social video site. Allows users to engage in group collaboration around rich media. Users can contribute or add clips of music and video, then mash it up to create a new music video. A group can come together to edit the video, clip, crop, transition, effects, etc., all online. The completed video can be posted to MySpace, Facebook, or any other social network.
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