Archive for the ‘Hot Startups’ Category

Demo of StumbleUpon, surfing tool for the community-driven Internet

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Ever have half an hour to just waste and wondered what cool stuff is there on the Internet? Well, StumbleUpon is the answer. They have 1.5 million people who are adding sites and rating them. It makes for a fun experience and you’ll find more fun new Web sites with StumbleUpon than any other tool or service we’ve seen. Here we get a demo from co-founder and Chief Architect Garrett Camp.


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Talking Gadgets with NETGEAR’s CEO

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

NETGEAR makes a lot of the world’s WiFi devices, among other consumer electronics gadgets. Since it’s getting close to CES time, we thought we’d come over and meet up with Patrick Lo, CEO of NETGEAR.


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TailRank the memetracker that lets you see what blogs are talking about

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Kevin Burton, founder of TailRank, gives us a demo of his memetracker which shows what the hottest conversations are in the blogosphere.


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Conversation with Memetracker developer Kevin Burton

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Kevin Burton is a talented developer who has worked on a variety of startups already including Rojo, and now TailRank which he started to be able to see what bloggers were talking about. Here I sit down with him for an interesting conversation in the lobby of San Francisco’s Palace Hotel.


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Distribute huge files easier, cheaper, faster with Pando

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

How do you get a big file from your computer to someone else’s computer? Pando Networks has a peer-to-peer way to do just that. Yaron Samid, Pando Networks’ founder, gives me a tour.


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Inside the first Wiki company, SocialText

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I spend almost an hour with Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, which is the first Wiki company. Ross is an interesting guy who’s been at the center of a bunch of trends, including Web 2.0, blogging, social media, and boom and bust cycles. We hear what SocialText is up to, and what Ross is seeing from his office in downtown Palo Alto.


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Content collaboration for enterprises with Koral’s Mark Suster

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

We met up with Koral’s CEO, Mark Suster and talk about content management inside enterprises. We also talk about startup success in downtimes (his last company did well through the bad times of 2001-2003).


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Koral, content collaboration for enterprises, demonstrated

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Ever have an Excel file that was emailed around only to have someone change a formula, which made everyone else out of sync? Well, Koral has found a unique way to make sure your employees collaborate with each other and stay in sync. Here co-founder Tim Barker gives us a quick tour around Koral, which they say does content collaboration right.


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Blogtronix built white label “Channel 9″ for enterprises

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Hear how Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, has built a white-label turnkey “Channel 9” for your company. Channel 9 is Microsoft’s videoblog/social software community. Blogtronix has blogs, a social network, wikis, video, audio, and all the stuff an enterprise would need to have both a private and a public social site.


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Blogtronix demoed: a turnkey social software system for your enterprise

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

If you’ve been over to Microsoft’s Channel 9, a social-software community and videoblog that Microsoft built, you’ve seen the power of having a videoblog combined with a forum combined with a wiki. Maybe you’d like to have a Channel 9 of your own at your company but don’t know how to get started. Vassil Mladjov, CEO of Blogtronix, demonstrates how his company takes care of everything.


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