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Innovator!Showcase Exhibitors
Affinitizwww.affinitiz.com
Affinitiz is an Internet software/service provider, specialized in community/group communication, web publishing and collaborative technologies, offering its services for B2C as well as B2B markets. Affinitiz has always been a pioneer in the "Social Software" area. With its latest version (V3.0), it now offers the best of "Web 2.0" concepts and technologies.
Initially focused on the French market, it is now embarking on its international development.
Cocomment
www.cocomment.com
coComment is the leading provider of comment and blog access, aggregation and tracking technology. The company enables better conversations on the web by providing users the ability to centralize, track and share comments anywhere online. Through integration with major platforms, coComment increases the visibility and exposure of comments to a greater user base of active commenters and bloggers – creating more interesting user experiences, driving users to the commenting sites and linking conversations with a community. coComment is now embarking on rapid growth and further development of the technology.
Cooliris
www.cooliris.com and www.piclens.com
Cooliris, Inc. was started with a simple mantra: think outside the browser.
As the Web becomes the go-to destination for media of all types, the advantages of increased client-side processing to complement server-side infrastructure become increasingly apparent. CoolIris is dedicated to building intelligent systems to make accessing the Web more exciting, efficient, and personal. Located in Palo Alto, the company is passionate about serving its users without compromise, ensuring that it delivers the best experience regardless of what it takes.
Criteo
www.criteo.com
Criteo aims to become the most efficient and widely used real-time personalized recommendation solution on the web to optimize access to Internet content long tails. Criteo is distributing its solution as an Application Service Provider, based on a licensing model.
For e-commerce sites, Criteo leverages the hidden long tail of product catalogues. The typical impact is an increase of up to 30% in revenues and unit margins.
For portals and blogs, Criteo can filter, segment and connect relevant users, information and ads together. Depending on implementation, Criteo solution can increase by up to 50% ad click-through, inventory and stickiness.
Ekaabo
www.ekaabo.de
EKAABO develops social communities for special interest groups.
Marco Ripanti and his team create more then 10 social communities
with roundabout 500.000 users. The leading communities are, for
example, in the fields of banking, golf, training, marketing
and higher education.
EQO
www.eqo.com
EQO has established itself as a premier mobile VoIP and messaging solution with users in more than 130 countries across 260 carrier networks and 450 different handsets. To date, the company’s products have leveraged revolutionary technology that provides real-time, presence-based communications on mobile devices. Using a combination of a proprietary mobile soft switch platform and a presence-enabled Voice-over-IP (VoIP) signaling network, EQO is capable of bridging disparate networks to presence-based mobile calling and messaging. End user applications include mobile instant messaging, mobile social networking and new international voice calling propositions that will change the landscape of global mobile communications.
Fring
www.fring.com
Born out of a desire to fundamentally change the way people communicate,
fring was founded by veterans from both the mobile and Internet
industries who were tired of watching telecom industries benefit
from the introduction of VoIP within their own domains yet refrain
from passing these benefits on to their consumers.
G.ho.st
http://g.ho.st/
G.ho.st (pronounced ghost) is developing the Global Hosted Operating SysTem, a completely new, Web-based, operating system - the world's only true Web OS. The G.ho.st OS together with third-party Web apps provides a complete Virtual Computer – a personal computing environment available from any browser which can complement or compete with Windows and Mac. An alpha version is live and a beta version is expected in the summer. G.ho.st’s free Virtual Computer is targeted at all consumers, word-wide, and especially people who often work from other people’s computers – whether at school, work or an Internet Café. The founder, Zvi Schreiber, has founded and sold two previous software ventures, Tradeum & Unicorn.
hiClip
www.gethiclip.com
hiClip is a trailblazing technology supplier for social networks
and communities to quickly expand their services to offer powerful
video features and webcam recordings. hiClip offers an unmatched
solution to enhanced video integration for social networks of
all size. The German based company delivers a flexible, stable
and easy to use video interface for more fun, more content and
more page views. hiClip helps communities to take advantage of
the growing demand for video, building up smart, progressive
video networks with the opportunity to profit from their connection
to special interest target groups via the hiClip media platform.
IMINENT
www.iminent.com
Founded by Francis Cohen, IMINENT develops and operates
value added services for IM users in the entertainment
market. We work as a partner to existing IM powerhouses
rather than as a competitor.
IMINENT is both a set of tools and a community of IM users willing to go a step further with their IM client of choice.
Mobiluck
www.mobiluck.com
MobiLuck is a provider of location-based services with strong skills in mobile applications development. MobiLuck is mostly known today for its Bluetooth messaging application used by more than 1 Million users in 200 countries, available in 21 languages on 120 mobile phone models and certified on 3 platforms (Symbian, Windows Mobile and Java). MobiLuck has 4 patents pending and is licensing its technology to several customers.
Plum
www.plum.com
Plum plans to become the way you collect and share all of the cool, interesting, and important stuff in your digital life. Plum was started because its founders thought that collecting and sharing on the web is really fun and useful — but much too difficult to do.
Whether you’re planning a vacation or researching your child’s allergies, shopping for a motorcycle or collecting recipes, Plum is the only service that lets you conveniently save and share anything – pages, videos, photos, files and more – in one place on the web.
Plum was founded by two successful entrepreneurs with a mission to “make all information social”. The company is two years old, has employees in five countries and has established technology and distribution partnerships with several major corporations.
Properazzi
www.properazzi.com
Properazzi.com is a property search engine that allows users to find sale and rental properties across Europe in their own language and currency. With 1.8 million property listings in 45 countries, Properazzi is Europe’s largest property portal.
Protomobl
www.protomobl.com
Protomobl was founded in 2006 and is based in Santa Monica, CA. Protomobl is a software product company focused on building a common-framework for social networking on the Web and mobile. The team brings with it more than 15 year combined consumer product and software experience. Its first product Fidg’t is a social networking address book- on the Web, on the Desktop, and on your phone.
Real Time Content
www.realtimecontent.com
Real
Time Content (RTC) is pioneering a completely new approach
to content creation and delivery called ‘Adaptive Media‘.
Their patented technology enables you to intelligently ‘customize’ video
and audio within a piece of content to fit the needs of the audience,
publisher and content owner, providing an engaging, entertaining
and relevant media experience.
SeekerWireless
www.seekerwireless.com
Founded by two of the brightest minds in location - Dr. Chris Drane, and Dr. Malcolm MacNaughtan, the team has approached the issue of cellular location in a highly mathematical, yet practical manner.
The basis of its approach revolves around utilising available measurements on existing, unmodified mobile handsets, coupled with an understanding of the radio environment to provide highly accurate location estimates of between 50 and 500 meters depending on cell density – WITHOUT the need for GPS.
Smaato
www.smaato.com
Smaato Inc. is an ad-enabler for mobile phones, pioneering with its mobile advertising platform SOMA™ (Smaato Open Mobile Advertising) for the delivery of targeted in-application mobile advertising to Smartphones. Smaato is partnering with international brands, advertising agencies, media publishers and software developers for its cutting edge mobile advertising platform. Smaato addresses the rapidly growing mobile advertising market with its services (including click-to-call response advertising) and platform solution. Smaato Inc. is based in San Mateo, California. The European headquarter is in Hamburg, Germany. Partners include: Handmark, iambic, SPB, Splashdata and AlwaysOn.
Smeet
www.smeet.com
sMeet enables everybody to experience social communications like in real life from anywhere using only a web-browser and a phone. sMeet is the first company to bring “lifelike reality” and “social communities” to telecommunications by creating a new communications paradigm we call “social reality communications”. sMeet is starting to build a large network of interlinked social communication environments and communities together with its Partners in various verticals ranging from education, to dating, to business.
sMeet is based in Berlin and London and is setting up in Silicon Valley shortly. It has a staff of currently 25 and was founded in September 2006. The basis of this groundbreaking social reality communications technology, was developed by a small team in stealth mode over a period of 4 years and several patents have been filed.
Solaiemes, S.L.
www.solaiemes.com
Solaiemes is a start-up focused on extending mobility using two product lines. It creates new use cases using multimedia across the SIP/IMS capabilities and enhances current solutions such as CRMs (m-banking, carriers, utilities) or mobile marketing and information services with a new concept of information delivery using its platform AVISG.
The founding team has more than 12 years' experience in telecom and other industries.
SpeedBit Ltd.
www.speedbit.com
SpeedBit
Ltd. was founded in 1999 in Haifa in the north of Israel. First
launching Download Accelerator Plus with patented acceleration
technology (now with 138 million registered users), SpeedBit
continued by creating SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube & iTunes,
FileRatings.com and FileFlyer.com, with over over 60,000 new
users joining the SpeedBit network every day. SpeedBit Ltd.
is backed by Pitango venture capital and Yossi Vardi, the founding
investor of ICQ the pioneering instant messenger that was sold
to AOL in 1998, and managed by Ariel Yarnitsky, the former
general manager of ICQ.
telepark
www.telepark.com
The Todeka Project
www.todekaproject.com
The Todeka Project is a brand new start-up based in Paris, France. The founders have worked in the Internet arena since the early days, building successful consumer Internet services, and accompanying major brands in their Internet strategy. The company is applying the diverse experience of its team to deploy a digital identity management platform on the Internet allowing anyone to take back control of their digital identity.
Trampoline Systems
www.trampolinesystems.com
Trampoline Systems is an enterprise software developer based in London, UK. Trampoline's products harness the social behaviour within organisations to pinpoint expertise, leverage relationships, and relay knowledge where it's needed. Trampoline is the first European “Enterprise 2.0” company to receive major institutional investment.
Trexy
www.trexy.com
Trexy.com is the first search engine to interoperate with over 4,000 online engines and databases to remember and share individual search discoveries – trails. A search trail is the click path a searcher makes after entering a search into a search engine and browsing the web for a solution. Trexy is designed to harness the communal effort of millions of people searching for the same things. Users can benefit by following in the footsteps of other searchers, saving time and effort.
VoxIQ
www.voxiq.com
VoxIQ Limited is a young company with an innovative market
leading product invented by the Founder. Development of new
enabling technology that overcomes many of the limitations
of current speech recognition applications.
The technology allows, for example, a full and complex conversation with a machine in a limited field such as car insurance. The solution is patented in 13 countries including USA, China, Korea and some European countries.
Wavestorm
www.wave-storm.com
Wavestorm provides hardware and software to enable the communication of “things” wirelessly and seamlessly. Based in Paris, the 15-people team has developed state-of-the-art solutions based on industry standards and major chipset manufacturers' technologies to provide fully-featured communication solutions ready to integrate in any kind of object allowing it to discover the devices around, join the available networks, search for available services and share and access available data and services in a robust and distributed way. WaveStorm technologies extend to WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and soon to UWB, Wimax and HSDPA. WaveStorm holds several patents and has a strong R&D team working tightly with ENST InfRes laboratory’s. WaveStorm solutions already power several products in industry-leading companies and consumer electronics amongst which Meccano’s newest “Spykee” WiFi spy robot.
Webjam
www.webjam.com
Founded in 2006 by British, Spanish and French entrepreneurs in London, UK, Webjam aims to empower individuals and communities to create, aggregate, and share content online. Webjam differentiates itself by bundling powerful community features with an easy drag-and-drop interface, a rich catalogue of modules and styles and a unique feature to replicate contents and styles from the community. With investment support from I-Source Gestion, Webjam is set to bring a disruptive approach to media publishing through its three pillar principles of replication, reputation, and relevance.
Webwag
www.webwag.com
Webwag provides a central place to ease the online user experience, both on the web and on mobile thanks to widgets and a search services. Webwag builds a loyal audience and generates revenue from advertising, affiliation, and B2B customization.
The company's mission is to free its users from the hassle of signing in to multiple web sites and applications, with an easy–to-use access to heterogeneous online data.
Webwag offers a global solution on PC and mobile with a user-customized portal service under a Web 2.0 agnostic brand, accessible from anywhere.
Whisher
www.whisher.com
Whisher was born with the vision of making access to networks, people, and content around us as easy and automatic as possible. Whisher has developed a software application that will make this happen.
Whisher is a software application that aims at creating and connecting truly digital neighborhoods. Its unique and patent-pending Wi-Fi sharing mechanism allows worldwide Wi-Fis to unite without requiring special hardware, creating a global free wireless network. The software also offers a set of advanced communication features such as IM, voice and file exchange. Finally, it makes the provision and access to services and content extremely easy and intuitive based on the location where the user connects.
Yoono
www.yoono.com
Yoono is a new kind of service for easily discovering 'stuff' and people passionate about the same topics. It is easy and intuitive to use, with no learning necessary. Yoono allows everyone to 1) automatically find relevant sites, blogs, and people on a specific topic 2) easily collect and share all kinds of content on the web and 3) meet and communicate with people sharing the same interests.