DemoFall preview: 10 to watch
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
The DemoFall and TechCrunch50 conferences launch tomorrow, September 8. Demo’s posted its list of it 72 presenting companies. TechCrunch will post a part of its list, we’re told, at 6:00 a.m. on Monday.
You can see the full Demo list at the end of this post. But here are the top 10 companies I’d be paying the most attention to if I were going to Demo (I’m going to TechCrunch with Josh; News.com writers Elinor Mills and Daniel Terdiman will be at Demo). I’ll do a list, or lists, for TechCrunch too, time permitting.
Rafe’s Top 10 previews from Demo
(Please note that I haven’t talked to all these companies yet, so my understandong of these pitches is incomplete, and my post-conference Top list will likely be different.)
- Clintview by Clintworld: This is a finanicial analysis tool primarily for mobile phone carriers. It simulates customer behavior related to pricing and helps create pricing tiers and plans that generate the most revenue. It brings a disciplined approach to pricing services, which I think is smart. Might be applicable to paid Web services as well.
- CrowdSpring Private by CrowdSpring: The company is not new, but I still love the idea. It’s a new twist on the open marketplace for intellectual work. At Demo, the company will unveil CrowdSpring Private, which lets companies create their own, closed markets, so creativitiy doesn’t leak out onto the Web, heaven forbid.
- Infovell: Very interesting new search service. It lets you type in aribtrarily long queries, and then ranks results based on importance and frequency of word clusters. Also lets you use entire Web pages as queries, generating a “more like this” function that doesn’t currently exist. Could be great for researching complex medical or legal topics.
- Sharelift by Mapflow: Adds intelligence to casual carpooling with a car-service-like gizmo that tells drivers where riders are that want to go where they are going. It’s hitchhiking 2.0: Scary but cool, and very green.
- PaidInterviews: Pays job candidates for going on interviews. Totally whacked economic model, if you ask me, but that makes it interesting.
- Plastic Logic: New science for electronic books, possibly competitive to existing e-Ink technology. Real chemistry at a startup conference. What a breath of fresh air.
- RealDVD by Real Networks: RealNetworks is making a legal DVD ripping service. Can’t wait to see this. Probably not enough to make RealNetworks relevant again, though.
- SpinSpotter: Claims to spot bias and inaccuracies in news stories. Helpful, if it works. Although it will probably expode if pointed at the blogosphere. And who watches the watchmen?
- .tel by Telnic: One of several new companies that lets users create personal calling card Web sites using a new top-level-domain. I am highly skeptical of this model, but I want to see how it develops.
- WebDiet: Location-based diet helper. Gives you food advice based on what’s close to you. Unknown if it gives you an electric shock and shrieks, “Keep walking!” when you pass a McDonalds.
See full Launch Week coverage of DemoFall and TechCrunch.
The DemoFall lineup is after the jump…
The DemoFall companies:
- Accordia Group, LLC
- Adapx, Inc.
- Alerts.com, Inc.
- Arsenal Interactive, Inc.
- Asyncast Corp.
- Awind Inc.
- beeTV
- Best Buy
- BizEquity Corp.
- Blue Lava Technologies, Inc.
- Cerego
- Cinergix
- Clintworld
- CoreTrace Corp.
- CrowdSpring, LLC
- DesignIn, Inc.
- Dial Directions, Inc.
- DocCenter
- Enterprise Informatics, Inc.
- Familybuilder
- ffwd.com, Inc.
- Fortressware, Inc.
- Fusion-io
- G.ho.st
- Green Sherpa
- Infovell, Inc.
- Intelius, Inc.
- Invision TV, LLC
- iWidgets, Inc.
- Kadoo Inc.
- Koollage, Inc.
- Mapflow, Ltd.
- Maverick Mobile Solutions, Pvt. Ltd..
- MeDeploy
- Message Sling
- MeWorks, Inc.
- Microstaq, Inc.
- MixMatchMusic, Ltd.
- Momindum
- OpenACircle.com
- Paidinterviews, LLC
- Paragent, LLC
- Photrade, LLC
- PlanDone, Inc.
- Plastic Logic, Ltd.
- Qtask, Inc.
- Quantivo Corp.
- Radiant Logic, Inc.
- RealNetworks, Inc.
- Rebus Technology, Inc.
- RemoTV, Inc.
- Rudder, Inc.
- Semanti Corp.
- Sim Ops Studios, Inc.
- SitScape, Inc.
- SkyData Systems, Inc.
- SpinSpotter
- Telnic, Ltd.
- TetraBase, LLC
- The Echo Nest Corp..
- Tikitag, an Alcatel-Lucent Venture
- Toolgether
- TravelMuse, Inc.
- Trinity Convergence, Inc.
- TurnTo Networks, Inc.
- UbiEst S.p.A.
- UGA Digital, Inc.
- Unity Solutions, LLC
- Usable Security Systems, Inc.
- WebDiet, Inc.
- Xumii, Inc.
- Zazengo, Inc.
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