Saturday, February 3, 2007

Geospot's CEO Joe Chen has so many ideas for applying his technology ("LBS for the rest of us") that his vision seems at times a bit unfocused. For both end-users and e-businesses, his new-generation web based vector map engine and vector-tile streaming promises the most interactive maps and deepest individual and community overlays yet, with multi-language capabilities, annotations, wikis, highlights, real time publishing,tracking and interaction. In alpha now, in beta soon.

Apptus* works off the salesforce.com platform (50,000 customers by year-end) and offers on-demand Contract Management Solutions to automate the entire contract lifecycle and related process. Kirk Krappe describes his product as high-functionality, low-cost, up-in-a-day and has customers to prove it. The higher end of the market has seen a lot of activity due to SOX, aka the Perpetual CPA Employment Act, but as Kirk puts it, formalizing and managing contracts is a necessary step of every company's sales process.

Byteshield's
* Veteran CEO Jan Samzelius learned from crackers and created a product that solves the problem of software piracy by "making it near impossible and certainly impractical to steal software, while completely safe and transparent for the user." The company's multiple protection steps allows publishers to mass distribute full feature trial versions with full control over use. Byteshield has signed its first customers.

DMD Mobile is
the leading provider of mobile technology and mobile media for the off-deck consumer wireless market in North America. The company, launched in 2004, is at revenue stage.

Younite* has developed a distributed information exchange model where the server is not the data store for personal information. Organizations can connect to Younite's personal information exchange and still keep their customer data where it belongs…. on their systems. End-users too can keep their personal information and their address book on their computers.

PlantSense* has developed a consumer micro-climate probe that connects to the PlantSense web site and helps consumers grow healthy indoor and outdoor plants. Their product is simple and fun and delivers both plant diagnosis and recommendation. They are distributing their product both through retailers and specialty catalogs and web sites.

Fonjax* is still in stealth mode. Suffice it to say that they plan to dramatically improve the quality control and deployment of mobile applications.

Opelin's*
Titanize product transforms content management by establishing a virtually permanent connection between files on the PC and files on the internet, allowing the consolidation of five usually separate services — protect, access, synch, share, and publish — into a single online product. Titanize is distributed by McAffee and powers McAfee's local back-up and archiving.

Xilas Medical sells patented medical devices, which are founded on evidence-based medicine and are clinically proven to reduce foot ulcers and amputations in diabetic patients.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work.