Buzznet
Based in Los Angeles, Buzznet Inc. creates and maintains Buzznet.com, a vibrant community for online photocommunication. Buzznet also develops the photocommunication platform -- the first software of its kind in the blogging arena. Which enables tens of thousands of individuals, organizations and corporations to participate in the Web's full potential by publishing photos and fostering communication between users with simple yet powerful software and services.
Buzznet is privately funded and was founded in 2002 by Marc Brown and Anthony Batt who are experts in software development, design and managing major content distribution networks.
Convoq
Convoq, Inc. delivers presence-driven collaboration solutions. The company's products help you find and interact with the people you need, when you need them. Convoq's initial product, ASAP, is an IM-based Web conferencing system for instantly gathering the right people at the right time in a rich-media, Web-based environment. The company is located in Lexington, MA.
FirstStream
First Stream is a Video Application Service Provider (VASP) that offers high-quality streaming Video-email and Video-on-Demand services eliminating the need for a movie player or cumbersome file attachments and executables. The company's core technology is comprised of a highly-efficient Java-based streaming video player and recorder. With a tier-one backbone and over 622 Mbps throughput capacity, First Stream can deliver streaming video message to anyone. The company's video blog can be found at Blog: http://www.firststream.blogspot.com
LinkedIn is the premier provider of private and effective online networking tools used by over 800,000 professionals in all industries and across the globe. LinkedIn’s user base is three times larger than all other business networks combined. And LinkedIn works: users accept 83% of all referrals because they only receive requests that their trusted contacts consider a win-win opportunity. LinkedIn is certified to meet the strict privacy guidelines of the European Union.
The company located in Mountain View, CA and funded by Sequoia Capital. LinkedIn’s CEO Reid Hoffman was formerly EVP of PayPal, the Internet’s de-facto standard for secure, private financial transactions between individuals.
Lycos
Terra Lycos is a global Internet group and is the largest access provider in Spain and Latin America. Terra Lycos includes Terra’s portals in Spain, Latin America and the Hispanic Market of the US and Lycos, which has presence in the United States, Europe and Asia. Terra Lycos network of sites includes, Angelfire.com, Atrea.com, Azeler.es, Educaterra.com, Gamesville.com, HotBot.com, Ifigenia.com, Invertia.com, Maptel.com, Matchmaker.com, Quote.com, RagingBull.com, Rumbo.com, Tripod.com, Uno-e.com and Wired News (Wired.com), among others. Terra Lycos, with headquarters in Barcelona and several operating centers, is listed on the Madrid stock exchange (ticker: TRR) and on the NASDAQ electronic market (ticker: TRLY).
MessageCast
MessageCast: Beyond simple email and alerting -- and right in time for the RSS/blogging revolution. MessageCast is the first company to send email and subscriber communication over popular real-time networks like Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo. Doing so has many significant benefits, including 10-18 times better message performance, authentication, presence detection, and delivery to multiple devices (email, desktop alert, PDA, and cell). Upwards compatible with existing email marketing systems and any RSS feed, the MessageCast's LiveMessage broadcast application is the next generation of SPAM-PROOF mass communication.
Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia is dedicated to enhancing people's lives and productivity by providing easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, and solutions for imaging, games, media, mobile network operators and businesses. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on five major exchanges.
OddPost
San Francisco-based Oddpost was founded by Ethan Diamond and Iain Lamb in late 2000 to develop a state-of-the-art Web-based email service. Like other Web-based e-mail, Oddpost is accessed via a standard Web browser, but the system’s interface functions more like that of a desktop program such as Microsoft Outlook. In June, Yahoo acquired Oddpost and plans to use the Oddpost technology to improve Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services.
Optimal Access
Optimal Access Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Los Angeles California and Berlin, Germany. The company seeks to fulfill the vision of co-founder Stefan Ritzi to give every computer user the optimal work environment. The company’s methodology for personalizing information access is platform independent and is built to integrate access to all applications from one user definable interface. Optimal Desktop is the company’s first product. It is currently available in English and German and will soon be available in other languages, as well.
PubSub
PubSub is a matching service that instantly notifies you when new content is created that matches your subscription. Using a proprietary Matching Engine, PubSub is able to read millions of data sources on your behalf and notify you instantly whenever a match is made. Today, PubSub reads over 2 million weblogs, more than 50,000 internet newsgroups and all SEC (EDGAR) filings. PubSub allows you to create, edit and manage subscriptions with ease, and stopping a subscription requires only a single click.
Six Apart
Six Apart Ltd., based in San Mateo, CA, is the company behind the Movable Type weblog publishing platform and the TypePad personal weblogging service. Founded by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott in 2002 and funded by Neoteny Co., Ltd, Six Apart creates tools that enable tens of thousands of individuals, organizations and corporations to participate in the web's full potential by publishing their ideas on the Internet with simple, yet powerful software and services. For more information about Six Apart, TypePad and Movable Type, visit the Six Apart corporate weblog at www.sixapart.com
Userplane
Userplane is the premier provider of enterprise, web-based social software for online communities.
Userplane Apps are elegant and easy to use. Using Macromedia Flash, the Apps are lightweight, cross-platform with no user installation, and customizable for a site's specific needs.
The Userplane Apps Community Suite consists of three Apps that support live text and audio/video communication on any website. The Suite includes Userplane Instant Communicator, Userplane Web Recorder, and Userplane Web Chat. Each App adds core, must-have features to thriving community websites. Instant Communicator provides live text and audio/video instant messaging, Web Recorder enables users to record and share audio/video messages, and Web Chat delivers full-featured, multi-room chatting.
Deployed internationally on sites ranging from online communities to intranets, the Userplane Apps Community Suite reaches tens of millions of users and supports over 3 million live conversations a month in 12 countries. Userplane Apps dramatically increase online interaction and improve guest-to-member conversion.
VidiTel
VidiTel's award-winning service delivers instant secure group meetings. From the desktop in a single interface, VidiTel supports high-quality, scalable, multi-party, voice, video & data communications over IP. The brandable solution enables service providers to quickly deliver a high-margin communication service to their customer base. The low-cost, easy-to-deploy service comes complete with a presence and messaging infrastructure. The company (previously called Reality Fusion) is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Geneva Venture Partners and a number of experienced Silicon Valley angel investors.
Overview
The smart companies making the first strategic moves into the Social Media market will be at BlogOn.
The conference will spotlight companies showing the greatest promise to become social media leaders. These companies will represent a broad spectrum of the opportunities and strategies that are so rapidly unfolding in the social media structure. Many will be introducing new products and services at BlogOn.
We will pick no more than the 15 most-promising companies to present their business case during BlogOn's afternoon sessions and we won't announce our selections until just before BlogOn starts. Executive Producer Chris Shipley and the Guidewire Group analysts will choose only the most innovative applicants as BlogOn Presenting Companies. Shipley, considered one the best eyes for talent and promising technologies, has been the primary judge in selecting more than 1000 presenting companies for DEMO and DEMOmobile since 1996. Among her selections are some of the industry’s most enduring and best-respected products and companies including the first Web application server, the first example of ASP-delivered software, and a range of innovative hardware technologies now re-shaping the look and feel of mobile devices.
If you think your company should be a BlogOn Presenting Company, please review the Exhibit page to learn about the application process.