DEMOfall 08 looks to be the biggest fall DEMO ever, with 72 companies launching their products on stage. To spice things up DEMOfall 08 will host three roundtables of industry thought leaders as they debate critical issues for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and big business. Demonstrating companies will be announced Friday, September 5th.
Emerging technologies and new products introduced at DEMO conferences are hand-selected from the spectrum of the global technology marketplace. DEMO conferences have earned a reputation for consistently identifying technologies that will disrupt current markets and change how people use digital technologies. New technologies are introduced at DEMO conferences by start-ups and established companies such as Google, salesforce.com, Palm, Yahoo!, Apple, HP and thousands of others.
SpeedDate.com, the world’s first online speed dating service, announced today that it has secured $6 million in Series B funding from Menlo Ventures. SpeedDate will use this funding to further grow its user base, expand operations, and enhance SpeedDate’s functionality.
SpeedDate.com’s patented system allows singles to meet each other through 3-minute online speed dates using webcams, audio, and instant messaging.
Zimbra Mobile provides over-the-air (OTA) two-way synchronization of e-mails, multiple calendars and contacts between user mailboxes and mobile devices, and enables seamless “push” e-mail service for all versions of Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Network Edition Standard or Professional, including the most current version, ZCS 5.0. Zimbra Mobile for iPhone 2.0 software allows iPhone users to maximize their business functions on the iPhone.
Webcarzz, a California-based multiplayer online game developer and publisher, today announced it has secured $4 Million in Series A equity financing led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital (MBVC). The funds will support the full cost of development, deployment and marketing of the company’s upcoming multiplayer online game. Webcarzz will announce further details on the game in the coming months.
Webcarzz, Inc.’s founders and executive team include top interactive entertainment and development executives responsible for numerous top selling and highly acclaimed video games (PC, console, mobile, online) that have generated more than $1BN in revenue.
SRS Labs, Inc., the leading provider of surround sound, audio and voice technologies, has announced a free “Photogram” widget that lets MySpace and Facebook users enhance their online photographs by adding sound effects enriched with SRS audio processing.
The Photogram widget is a no-cost application developed by SRS Labs that allows members of these popular social networking sites to add a wide range of quality sound effects to the pictures they place on their social media profile. The widget can be placed in the “comments” section of a friend’s page, or in the creator’s “profile” section.
360Hubs, a developer of turnkey Web 2.0 business collaboration software, today announced that it has developed and taken an equity position in OffsetX.com, a network of social action and entertainment Web sites. OffsetX allows participants to “offset” the actions and support provided by enthusiasts of opposing interests and opinions through their own actions and the creation of related OffsetX Web sites. Members can participate in, contribute to, or interact with opposing enthusiasts to express opinions, take action to counteract offsetting views, or create their own Offset communities with the goal of effecting change.
Unlike traditional social networking sites, OffsetX’s collection of Web sites feature: daily news feeds; virtual immediate updates from fellow members regarding opinions; activities and Offset actions; user polls; and tallied results and postings for daily featured Offsets. For example, the OffsetObama.com and OffsetMcCain.com sites allow members to rally supporters and influence support by encouraging voter registration, candidate donations, participation at events and other Offset-related actions.
Ever wondered if someone around the corner might be interesting to meet but you would never know? Ever felt like striking a conversation with a guy/girl in the elevator but it just did not happen? Makers of one of the coolest mobile social networking applications – BluePont – have now made it all possible.
When the right person is close (same supermarket, across a few city blocks, a nearby coffee shop) your phone alerts you both by playing music. You can then exchange private messages (your number is not sent in any way) and meet instantly. This is meeting naturally by chance plus defying a little distance. It’s all free.
August 29th, 2008 by Social Guy
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