Demo Day 3: The Morning Demos

Day 2 at Demo!

VOIP to the People
myPeople - a VOIP service based in Birmingham, AL.  There are tons of features, including cool music instead of a dial tone, wake up calls, voice dialing, reminder calls, and wake up calls.  The phone actually talks to you when you pick it up saying: "This is so exciting! Who are you going to pick?" I typically think of the phone as a completely solved problem, so it's nice to see a company innovating phone software.
EQO Communications - connects Skype users to cell phones.  Everybody seems to use Skype except me.  I don't like talking to people: I just want IM on my phone.
ZinkKat - some connectivity tool for teenagers.
Transparensee - fuzzy structured data search.  They demoed a real-estate
Nexidia - audio search.  They did a search for Alan Greenspan (entered as text) over voice content and were able to extract many mentions of ex-Chairman Greenspan in the news. 
Kosmix - obviously I have vested interest in saying that this demo rocked.  Venky and Anand did a fabulous job and I'm very proud to be working for them.
AOL (Truveo) - Yeah. They are cool, but they got bought by AOL.  Just not as exciting as when they were a scrappy startup.

It's all relvant
Panoratio Database Images - claims "supercomputing on a laptop" and can reduce the footprint of large databases by 10 to 1000 times without compression.  As a demo, they showed a database image with 10GB of data, which had all football data this century, including plays, wins, losses, etc.  In their second demo, they took 300GB of pharmeceutical data and ran , which ran in a 290MB file in memory on the machine.  I'm surprised they didn't use Web data, since 90% of the people in the audience have
Zimini - a free, downloadable piece of software, which allows you to enter a profile and get relevant coupons.  I can't get excited about more promotions coming to my inbox.  I found it interesting that the CEO called them KUY-pons, not KOO-pons. Is that now a standard pronunciation?
Sprout Systems - e-mail management system to help small/medium businesses deal with e-mail. Again, an interesting innovation on a problem I thought was solved. They use lots of neat features (built in Ruby on Rails) like e-mail tagging, a useful priority queue, and saved responses.
eeMinder.com - I can't get excited about organizing myself.  This is some connection between your cell phone and CRM systems.
OpenConnect Systems - replacing green screen stock trades.
Sharpcast - they launched a desktop application to help you organize your photos.  To demo the application, they took a picture on a cell phone and it automatically was sent to Sharpcast.  Sharpcast also syncs with your site on Sharpcast.com, without any manual uploads.  I love the fact that they focus on simplicity: you just take pictures and they automatically show up in the right place.  That's something my grandmother and mother need (they shouldn't need to understand uploads and downloads).

Disruptor #2
LocaModa - this demo was pretty unbelievable and I won't pretend to do it justice.  They've created a product called StreetSurfer, which turns flat panels into interactive marketing tools.  For example, a realtor could set up one of these bad boys in his window and a consumer who was walking by can SMS the house that he likes.  They also have a neat application called Wiffiti, which is an interactive billboard that people can send SMS messages to.  Unfortunately, their big announcement today was with TheTruth.com, the nemesis of one of my favorite cash cows.

Media madness
BroadRamp CDS - Some content server, but I couldn't figure out what was special.
Yahoo Photos Beta - the world's largest online photo service with over 1 billion photos online(!).  This new service is un-freakin-believable.  Yahoo has truly been Flickred!  The demo included crazy cool drag-and-drop (wait till you see the tray that pops up, no matter where you've scrolled down).  The tagging functionality seems rockin', plus your own personal tag cloud.  The new Yahoo Photos, along with other apps like Yahoo Mail Beta, \show that Yahoo is the number one developer of usable, innovative Web applications.  I believe that Yahoo's competency in creating software will ultimately trounce Google's superior ability to create back-end technology.
Vizrea Snap - allows users to upload pictures automatically from your phone.  Free trial starting today.  Woot!
Smilebox - users can create scrapbooks, slideshows, greetings, albums, and postcards from their photos.

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