DEMO Articles
Increase Your RSVP Accuracy With trueRSVP
Busy taking classes and studying all night? Have an idea for a startup but afraid you don’t have time to work on it? Well tuff, these fine young folks currently attending the University of Southern California surely didn’t think so. Not only did they start a company but they have taken as far as attending and pitching at one of the most prestigious conferences known in the startup world, DEMO.
Raise a glass with TechZulu & New Media Vault at Drai’s Hollywood
That’s right. We all work hard, now it’s time to play hard. TechZulu is turning three and we couldn’t think of a better place to celebrate than the exclusive nightclub, Drai’s Hollywood. We’ve partnered with New Media Vault (who subsequently will be celebrating their two year anniversary) to bring you a night of red carpet chic, rooftop cabanas, and a DJ who’s flying in from New York.
Brian Solis Takes The Reins For The Pivot Conference
Congratulations to our good friend, best-selling author and social media thought leader Brian Solis! He will be heading up as Editorial Director and Host for 2011 and future Pivot Conference’s. Solis will take over the reins from Chris Shipley, who will be focusing on her position as chairman and CEO of Guidewire Group.
myShopanion Takes Comparison Shopping Social
Comparison shopping is great when you are out and about looking for the best deals on a product or even looking for reviews. However, I catch myself wondering about the reviews on occasion. “This is an awesome product, and is a must buy!”, says dbz09.
DEMO Innovation Tour Coming To Southern California
For those who may not know of DEMO, it is a jammed packed twice a year 2 day conference filled with 6 minute on stage pitches, a demo pit, networking events, and not to mention one of the longest running emerging tech conferences
Supercool School: Build Your Own Educational Institution
Teaching credentials? What is that? And who needs them with when you have Supercool School. Supercool school is a site that allows anyone to create an online learning environment that they can charge students to take a course. Founder Steli Efti stated that he wants to create the Ning of Education, giving the ability to…continue reading.
my6sense: Bringing Digital Intuition To Your Streams
Filters are a thing of the past when you have “Digital Intuition”. No longer will you need to check mark those boxes on what you have interest in. With my6sense they simply want you to plug in your streams and let it do the work for you. my6sense intelligently filters your content from Twitter, Facebook…continue reading.
Gwabbit: Universal Contact List In The Cloud
Gwabbit did it again and took home yet another DEMOgod award with their new product the Gwab-o-Sphere. The Gwab-o-sphere is an “automatic contact cloud” according to CEO Todd Miller. What the service does is synchronizes the contacts you have across your phones and social networks and puts them in an easy to use contact database.…continue reading.
GreenNurture: Help Make Your Company More Sustainable
Corporate sustainability is now being seen as a moral imparative. GreenNurture is the maker of an application that helps employees contribute to the sustainability for their employers. Based on the popularity of rewards systems and social networking of late, GreenNurture gives people incentives to help save energy and precious resources. GreenNurture has the ability for…continue reading.
AirSet: Your Own Personal Cloud Computer
During DEMOspring 2010 we caught up with Brian Dougherty founder of AirSet. AirSet gives you your own Personal Cloud Computer and the ability to add groups of Cloud Computers to your Cloud Network. Each cloud computer has an expandable hard disk, a rich suite of web applications, and acts as a web server publishing content. Signing…continue reading.
DEMOspring Here We Come
DEMO has officially started today and we will be there starting tomorrow. For DEMOfall 2009 we pretty much hit it on the nose for the DEMOgod award winners, let’s see if we can nail it again this year. The DEMO conference announced the lineup of 65 companies that will share their products and value propositions…continue reading.
Look Up Before You Hook Up with DateCheck
Ever get suspicious when that new someone you’re dating is sparing on the details about their own background? Sure, you could Twitter stalk them, scan their Facebook page or Google them, but all that takes time and isn’t very useful when he’s closing out the tab and you’re deciding whether or not to…take things a…continue reading.
Buy Local with Local Dirt
Did you know that, on average, food travels a whopping 1500 miles from the farm to your plate? Grocers and restaurants currently buy less than two percent of their produce and meat from local farmers, but DEMO startup Local Dirt is looking to boost local consumption. Local Dirt has essentially created an online marketplace making…continue reading.
Raise Money Through The Social Web With Piryx
Piryx launched a new product at DEMOfall 2009 a few weeks ago billed as “payments for the social web”. Piryx is a Social Commerce company. With the combination of payment processing and marketing tools, to give businesses and non-profits the capability to identify and connect with their customers, and donors. Their new product key features…continue reading.
Become Your Own Network Executive with TwirlTV
Choose what you want to watch when you want to watch (As long as it’s on one of the major networks). Share with your friends via Facebook, Twitter and MySpace and watch the shows together. If this sounds a lot like Hulu its because they are very similar. The only real difference between the two…continue reading.
Cortera: Yelp For Business Credit
According to Jim Swift Cortera is like a Yelp for business credit. Allowing large and small businesses to rate the payments experiences they have for their customers. Until Cortera’s launch at DEMO fall 2009 Dun & Bradstreet had been the major player in the business credit market. Jim, However, says that Dun & Bradstreet fail…continue reading.
