New companies launched today
With so many companies launching at Web 2.0 here are few tidbits I took from the 6 minute demos they did. Also gave each an interestingness rating in stars.
SocialText, Ross Mayfield (***)
- look at case study of intranet wiki
- Wikiwyg.net (GUI Rich Text Editor)
- Synchroedit.com (sharable editing interface)
- Mention “web2con” at socialtext and get free wiki for 5 users for a year
Rollyo, Dave Pell (***)
- Search engine focused only on certain search sites
- Creators of searchrolls get credit for these with traffic back to their blog site
Joyent, David Young (***)
- Network suite of apps: Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Files, Binders
- Leverages tags (smart filters), RSS, vCard, vCal, WebDAV, XML-RPC
- Group collaboration and productivity tool (all online). Some interesting UI elements.
Bunchball, Rajat Paharia (***)
- Doing things with people you know
1. Social application gap
2. Replication of reality - Problems: Recreating groups? Infrastructure? Distribution?
- This is the plumbing/infrastructure for your social applications
RealTravel, Ken Leeder (**)
- A better way to find info about places from people like you.
- Integrated travel blogging with social networking.
- Another guide player
Zimbra, Satish Dharmara (*****)
- Collaboration server meant to replace Exchange (open source)
- Lots of mashups (addresses=>gmaps, “next Friday”=> what you’re doing, phone number => skype). Wow this is an amazing example of Web 2.0
- Email searching by domain, interesting date ranges, all updating on the fly
- Amazing UI (DHMTL layers right where you want them, and fast)
Zvents, Ethan Stock (***)
- The best local event search and web service
- 3X the closest compedition, 60,000 events in SF
- “What-when-where” in both “list-map-calendar” situations
KnowNow, Ron Rasmussen (**)
- eLerts for RSS, lets you know when RSS feeds get updated
- Just notify you of change, annonomous. Integrates thru toolbar add-on
- Alerts too frequent and a bit annoying.
Orb, Ian McCarthy (***)
- Threw frisbees out with login info at start of preso (cool)
- Make your home desktop accessible on any WiFi device’s browser
- Stream anything from your home PC
Wink, Michael Tanne (*****)
- Introducing “TagRank” which is based on aggregate tags and analysis
- Builds off Y!’s “My Web 2.0″ by leveraging social networking and tagging
- Helps fight against SEO spamming
Allpeers, Matthew Gertner (**)
- Transforming Firefox into Web2.0 dev platform
- Adds: Extensible Profiles, Data Storage, Resource Replication, Peer-to-peer communication
Flock, Bart Decrem (***)
- Crazy enough to make a new web browser: “The social browser”
- Open source, built on Mozilla technologies, dozen folks in Palo Alto
- Launch: Alpha in late October
- Focus: Favorites/history & blogging
- We should keep an eye on adoption of this web browser