Monday DEMO Coverage Round-Up (Part 2)
Part two of our DEMO coverage, we’re including today demonstrations scheduled for the conference.
These are the demonstrators for today with links to other takes around the blogosphere and beyond, as well as what Rex, John and I thought based on our viewings of the demonstrations.
Gazaro.com is first user-controlled and personalized electronic sales flyer. You specify what you want and Gazaro uses artificial intelligence to find and filter the best sales in your city. View your personal sales flyer online and get alerts on great sales via email, RSS and Twitter. You control how and when you get notified. You control which products get displayed in your flyer.
VentureBeat: DEMO: Gazaro launches its personal sales flyer
UberGizmo: Gazaro: Personal Sales Flyers Keeps Track of Deals
BusinessWeek: Early-Stage Tech Companies Make Their Pitch
PC Magazine: Demo 09 Promises Productivity Apps, Gadgets, and More
The Touch Book is a portable device that works as both a netbook and a touchscreen tablet. Use the keyboard to type an email or open an Office document. Or use the touchscreen tablet to browse sites on your fridge door or play games and watch videos from your sofa. Based on open source software and hardware, the instant-on Touch Book weighs just two pounds and offers never-before-seen battery life.
PC Magazine: Always Innovating Launches Four-In-One ‘Touch Book’
Christian Science Monitor: The Touch Book from Always Innovating features a detachable …
Crunchgear: Touch Book: Tablet netbook with ARM CPU, 10+ hour battery …
VentureBeat: DEMO: Always Innovating’s Touch Book sounds amazing. Can it deliver?
NetworkWorld: Touch-screen laptop, iPhone service highlight DEMO 09
MobileMagazine: A Real Convertible Tablet Netbook with Detachable Screen
jkOnTheRun: Hybrid Touch Book from Always Innovating adds/ removes the keyboard
The Link Experts: World’s first touchscreen netbook?
Our take: This is hands down the big winner of DEMO in terms of coverage. I’m actually watching the demo for the product as I’m typing this post up, and it looks like it’s a great system. I’m going to leave the bigger analysis for the hardware experts, but from a consumer perspective, I’ll put it this way – I want one now.
gwabbit is an inexpensive plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that quickly finds and captures contacts from anywhere within an email and instantly transforms them into Outlook Address Book contact records. gwabbit makes the tedious, time consuming chore of contact capture fast, easy and fun! gwabbit downloads and installs quickly and easily and is priced at only $19.95.
VentureBeat: DEMO: Gwabbit launches automated email contact manager
WebWorkerDaily: Capture Your Outlook Contacts With gwabbit
Computerworld: DEMO 09: It’s the economy, stupid…
PC MAgazine: DEM
O 09: Doing More With Less
FOX business: DEMO Announces Lineup of New Technology Companies to Take the …
Our take: There are 500 million Outlook users still out there. While what Gwabbit does is automatic for those of us that use GMail, most email users haven’t moved to that product yet. For those that are still locked in on client side solutions like Outlook, this is a lifesaver.
Xandros Instant On enables computers to boot in seconds. Users can then browse the Web, chat using instant messaging, make Skype calls and do many other useful things without waiting for Microsoft Windows to start. Xandros Instant On is available as a customizable solution for OEMs and as an inexpensive retail product compatible with most Windows XP and Vista laptops.
VentureBeat: DEMO: Xandros powers up laptops in seconds with Presto
CNet: Xandros instant-on platform: Who needs it?
UberGizmo: Xandros Launches Presto, an Instant-On Mini Linux for Laptops
PCMagazine: Demo 09 Promises Productivity Apps, Gadgets, and More
eWeek: Xandros ports netbook distro to ARM
MSNBC: Xandros Brings New, Simple and Compelling User …
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Email is our original social network, todo list and means of collaboration. It’s where we get things done and, as a result, is prone to clutter and confusion. Cc:Betty works as a personal email assistant to initiate and sort through emails and parse conversations, files, images, media, dates and places, in the spirit of saving time while collaborating and coordinating with groups of people.
CNet: Podcast: Cc:Betty organizes your email
PC World: DEMO 09: CCBetty Makes Any Email into an Online Message Board
VentureBeat: Cc:Betty makes email easier for collaboration
WebWorkerDaily: Cc:Betty Offers Your Own Personal Email A
ReadWriteWeb: cc:Betty Launches Smart Email Service
Lifehacker: Cc:Betty Organizes Email Conversations and Attachments
Our take: I was expecting this to be I Want Sandy 2.0. It wasn’t, but it still didn’t fail to disappoint in the scope of what it attempts to do. This is one of those tools that to properly evaluate, you’d actually have to use it for a few days – so don’t believe any reviews you see before next week.
GoView is a simple screen recording, editing and hosting service available over the Web to create and share content widely. Users can create screencasts of presentations, product demos and application training. GoView is uniquely designed to enable the novice user to quickly record, polish and distribute content.
ReadWriteWeb: GoView: Free Screencasting Tool from Citrix
VentureBeat: DEMO: Citrix Online’s GoView lets you record, edit, and share …
CNet: Application makes screen recording easy
PC Magazine: DEMO 09: Doing More With Less
Computerworld: DEMO 09: It’s the economy, stupid…
Networkworld: DEMO 09: Recession weeds out uninspiring start-ups<
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CBS: Demo, The Tech Show With Heart And Soul
Our take: While it was perhaps one of the most stilted and staged demos of the conference, it was for the one product that will likely have no problem at all taking off. Citrix products are always solid and generally perform as advertised.
Pixetell on-demand software provides the power of in-person interaction and the convenience of email. You can verbally and visually explain spreadsheets, drawings, designs, proposals… anything on your screen. With Pixetell, you quickly combine screen recordings, voice, webcam, rich text and attachments into a secure, interactive message sent over existing channels including email, blogs, wikis, IM and Twitter. Recipients view Pixetells at their convenience in their Web browser and can reply with their own Pixetell message.
PC World: Move Over E-mail, Here Come ‘Pixetells‘
VentureBeat: DEMO: Ontier’s Pixetell packs more collaboration into email
Northwest Innovation: OnTier Launches New Communications Software
Our take: Unfortunately, I walked in on the middle of this presentation, so maybe I missed something important. Problem? I wasn’t impressed. Didn’t seem to really add much to the mobile messaging equation. The response from the crowd seemed pretty mixed – a couple were quite impressed, and others not so much.
WebLegend takes e-commerce to the next level by replacing the one-Web-fits-all approach with a dynamic, personalized Web experience. With an average of 97 out of every 100 shoppers abandoning their online shopping carts, e-retailers are missing a massive opportunity to close transactions with the visitors who are already on their Web sites. Using the same techniques proven to work in face-to-face selling, WebLegend increases conversion rates up to 50 percent by providing each shopper with the information they need to complete the transaction.
VentureBeat: DEMO: 7 Billion People’s WebLegend personalizes the web shopping …
Austin American-Statesman: 7 Billion People hits the DEMO stage
PC Magazine: DEMO 09: Stimulating the Economy
Our take: It seemed like a complex approach to a simple problem – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Essentially, as the pitch goes, this shopping cart system is driven by a complex AI that knows how you like your information. It’s thus able to make you, as a consumer, more likely to buy. A tall order, but they seemed to present the software as plausible and even cool!
The CO2code allows companies to climate-neutralize the emissions of products with the use of CO2certificates. The software splits these CO2certificates (tons of CO2) into small units (e.g., pounds of CO2), generating CO2codes, which can be printed on each product, like a serialcode. This allows end-consumers to trace how a yogurt, flight or conference was climate-balanced. While the cost of climate-neutralizing an individual product is extremely low (a bottle of wine=$0.03), the marketing effects are enormous.
CNet: In search of a greener conference (and products)
NetworkWorld: New carbon codes let consumers decide how products are carbon …
FOXBusiness: DEMO Announces Lineup of New Technology Companies to Take the …
Our take: Green startups generally fail to wow me. This one is no exception. This startup capitalizes on the completely opportunistic, communistic and useless world carbon credits. Avoid.
SmartyCard is the first online game where kids learn stuff and earn stuff. Smarty-Card’s learn, earn and play experience provides real and virtual rewards to tens of millions of families that believe learning at home can be fun. SmartyCard features fun and interactive games created in partnership with leading online educational content providers. Kids earn and redeem points for the most popular rewards at iTunes, Club Penguin, Webkinz, Stardoll, Bella Sara and other popular family sites.
CNet: Podcast: SmartyCard rewards learning with stuff
VentureBeat: DEMO: SmartyCard lets kids learn stuff and earn stuff with reward …
CNet: SmartyCard to kids: Do well, get stuff
USAToday: DEMO conference kicks off
FoxBusiness: DEMO Announces Lineup of New Technology Companies to Take the …
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