Mashup demo writeup

Will try some live some live blogging from the mashup demo event taking place this time around at the cc club in London.

(Added later - this was a list typed in as I watched some very quick fire presentations so my apologies in advance for any lack of detail about each product. If you'd like a more extensive write-up on the products that demo'd then please go to blognation for example:

http://uk.blognation.com/2007/10/02/turn-off-your-web-tv-and-go-and-do-something-less-boring-instead/

http://uk.blognation.com/2007/10/04/podcast-meecard-puts-the-online-you-within-reach/)

 

1)enterprise mashup tools provider called from serena software. a yahoo pipes . popfly for business?

2) mobestar mobile social networking, fully hosted whitelabel solution.

3) 15 second tv. can place your face in a video clip. personalised media

4) Babel tv, set top box that gives you internet on the tv. music, files, photo etc. Everything is stored centrally. Biggest potential of everything shown?

5) welovelocal, social reviews site which includes an API

6) Rummble, time out guide written by your friends, social reviews. trusted  reviews  via a network.

7) Magpie - brand sentiment analysis based on tracking blogs, sites and forums. Could the hugh's bluemonster be kicking in? microsoft seems to be top for brand buzz.

8) Inspire design.  Brand design  company , nothing  to demo.

9) bondaii - pervasive identity computing. Personal identity server stores your personal information which can be accessed via the mobile phone. use case is linking two profiles together of friend's mobile phone numbers, then automatically updated when the number changes. Not sure on openid integration.

10) mee card - unify your personal identity. A snippet of your youness online. Works with openid.

11) roll sense content recommendations for blogs which recommends content based on related content on the blog roll, then creates a network of blogs.

12) fav.or.it making it easier for people to leave blog comments and comment on rss feeds, also an RSS reader.

13) Kwiqq - social website builder platform.

14) Tipped  Social Reviews - trusted ratings and reviews of venues,  3rd social reviews site for london so looks like a crowded space?

15)   edocr - allows documents that are not published online to be accessed, converts documents to flash which can be embedded on blogs etc Not sure on differences between this and .pdf.

16) testcard.tv allows you to find the tv that you want to watch online. aggregates all the results from you tube etc into one place via a standard player. Quite liked this one, simple idea done well from the demo.

and thats it for now

Update: Edocr presentation here;

 

Comments

[Manoj Ranaweera]

Thanks for mentioning www.edocr.com. Hope you managed to attend the event and learned bit more about edocr and other companies who presented.

The idea behind edocr is to give life to those documents published on to corporate websites. This is achieved through interactivity, which is not possible through corporate websites.

Happy to explain any aspects of edocr.

Best regards, Manoj

[Piers Jones]

Hi Manoj, yes I'm clearer on edocr now that I've seen the presentation which I have now added to this post. Cheers...Piers

[Manoj Ranaweera]

Pier

Many thanks for embedding the presentation slide pack and your kind words. Best regards. Manoj

[Manoj Ranaweera]

Pier

Many thanks for embedding the presentation slide pack and your kind words. Best regards. Manoj

[Manoj Ranaweera]

Pier

Many thanks for embedding the presentation slide pack and your kind words. Best regards. Manoj

[Eddy Pauwels]

The only similarities I see between Serena's Business Mashup solution and Yahoo pipes and Popfly is that they all provide a simple graphical design capability for mashing "something" up. The Serena Business Mashup suite combines best practices from 3 trends in the market into a single simple solution that can potentially be used by any business person without the help of IT. The trends are Web 2.0, SOA, and BPM. In fact the tool combines the power of a business process workflow tool with an SOA based composite application builder (combining SOA components into a new SOA component executed as BPEL process)and all this is provided in a very simple to use design tool that does not require low level programming. If you want to learn more, either send me an email, check me out at XING (I created a group on Business Mashups) or check the Serena website (serena.com)

regards,
Eddy

[Piers Jones]

Thanks for clarifying some of the detail on serena Eddy. I still think that the description of a yahoo pipes for business is not that far off. I understand that under the bonnet you are pulling together process workflow / applications etc but to the end user what they are going to be interested in is the ability to mashup their corporate data easily with a simple interface. From my experience technology companies can have a tendency to concentrate on all the interesting (to them) techie stuff that they have to do in order to build something and can be very light on explaining the benefit to the end user. That's just a personal opinion of course. Good luck with the new product I hope it goes well for you. Cheers....Piers