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So you've had a brilliant idea for a new technology product - software that will absolutely destroy spam or hardware that doesn't permit user error. It's a multi-million dollar idea and now you just have to get the product built and out in front of the right people to make it take off. After the inspiration and the research to make sure the idea is truly unique, you have to carefully plan your next moves: To whom do you confide? When do you talk to potential investors? How do you approach OEMs to begin production?
This panel of DEMOgod winners explains their arduous travels from inspiration to their much publicized and highly successful launches at DEMO 06. The semi-annual DEMO conferences are the top venue for emerging technology product introductions and each distinguished panelist was given the title of "DEMOgod" for his inspiring live stage presentation.
Chris Shipley is a leading technology and product analyst. Best known as the executive producer of the DEMO Conferences, Chris has helped technology companies bring over 1,000 new products to market since 1996. As a founding partner and Global Research Director of Guidewire Group, she analyzes emerging technology companies around the world to identify market opportunities and accelerate products to market.
Featured DEMOgods:
i-Lighter -- This really simple tool turns a cursor into a highlighter, enabling you to collect, oragnize and act upon browser-based data. This products stands out among Internet data collection tools because it is extremely flexible and supports a range of models for putting collected information to work.
Panoratio --Panoratio offers an elegant solution to what is fast becoming an intractable problem: deriving meaningful information from huge, complex data stores. Data compression techniques and advanced analytics capabilities alone won’t solve the problem. So Panoratio invented a unique technique that preserves the integrity and meaning of the data, yet allows it to be compacted, syndicated, analyzed and shared as easily as business analysts share spreadsheets today.
Krugle -- The open source movement has fundamentally changed application development, yet the tools to help developers tap the collective wisdom of the development community are relatively primitive. Krugle brings some order to the ever growing library of freely available code, helping programmers find the code they need to do their job and giving them the information they need to use that code effectively. Krugle is a boon for developers everywhere.
Mercora -- Mercora brings streaming and mobility together in a seamless system that supports discovery and legal music sharing over the air to mobile phones. The M is the future of digital music.
Riya -- Riya has had a tough time staying below the radar, but you'll have that when the rumor mill reports keen interest in a pre-launch start-up by some of the industry's biggest firms. It's well-deserved attention; Riya is applying amazing image detection technology to a convenient consumer photo service. It's the deep technology behind the consumer front end that garnered Riya.com an invitation to DEMO.
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