1. Steve Rosenbaum: http://magnify.net…
I have to say I wasn’t really impressed with this one. They’re basically providing a way to upload YouTube videos from any webpage. Yawn.
2. Oliver Hurst-Hiller: http://DonorsChoose.o…
This is great. I think the idea of getting people to help support teachers by harnessing the viral aspects of the internet is a great one. I am going to be promoting this one myself since it is a great cause.
3. John Pavley: http://exchange.conte…
Another ad marketplace. I wasn’t overly impressed. Nice clean design, not all that innovative other than allowing sites to name their price on ads. Someone in the audience called them out on not having enough buyers for ads.
4. Mark Ghuneim: http://www.trendrr.co…
This was my favorite presentation of the night. Its basically Google Analytics for anything. You feed it data and it creates wonderful stats and charts. You really have to play with it to get an idea of what it is. I see tons of potential for this.
5. Ben Kaufman: http://kluster.com…
Interesting idea. Ben has a site where people get together and create products and brands. Essentially you are creating a start up online, and there are all sorts of features for showing who has the best product using voting and having folks buy shares of your company. I think this is a great idea and will be playing with it in the future.
6. Ben Satterfield: http://twiddla.com…
This is nuts. I grew up a block away from Ben, and had no idea he was presenting. Its funny how life works sometimes. Ben’s got a great product, its sort of like GoToMeeting but without the need to download anything and with better tools and interface. He said they are working on expanding this to allow developers to use this to collaborate on source code. Right now its more for designers to collaborate on building websites. It even allows them to talk to each other with VOIP. Twiddla won best technology at SXSWi. I’m so proud of my old buddy!
7. Justin Ouellette: http://muxtape.com…
You all know about Muxtape. Simple and simply awesome. He revealed they are going to start allowing people to buy the songs they listen to which might be a good reason for the RIAA to play with Muxtape rather than try and shut it down.
8. Nate Westheimer: http://bricabox.com…
I don’t get it. See if you can figure it out. Is it evite? Is it a blog? I don’t know.