'Show and Tell' for Start-ups: Complete DEMO Coverage on Wired News
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Wired News reports live from the DEMO conference in San Diego, California. Check back regularly for breaking news, updates and reports on the hottest new products from one of the web industry's premiere conferences for emerging technology.
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(InfoWorld) - The annual DEMO conferences are always a useful instrument by which to gauge the health and stature of technology innovation; this year was no different, with 16 companies presenting in the first morning session and a recurring theme that might be dubbed âPower to the People!â said Chris Shipley, executive producer of DEMO. âWe are breaking away from putting technology at the center, and we are putting people at the center who have the authority to influence technology,â Shipley said. Of course, people have always been part of the fun at DEMO, where IT industry haves and have nots share a stage to sing for their supper in front of an audience of peers, venture capitalists, and the press. Shipwire was the poster child for people-powered tech. The new company will help small companies compete with the largest retailers by offering a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution for warehouse management, and the pick-pack-and-ship process. On the enterprise front, 6th Sense Analytics unveiled a kind of âoutsourcing nannyâ software that can help project managers maintain visibility into the progress of any project, capturing all development activities and delivering them back to a hosted server. For example, a project manager in the United States can know when an offshore developer has instantiated the debugger or when he or she is editing the file. The system monitors files by checking byte count, measuring the amount of time spent actively developing software, and looking at how much uninterrupted time is spent doing a particular component of the project, according to Greg Burnell, co-founder and CEO. Although DEMO is often thought of as a platform for startups, established firms were at the show in force, as well. Adobe showed off Apollo, a new platform for those who worry that too much of Web 2.0 is not a good thing. Apollo offers nervous users the reassurance of desktop storage and desktop performance, Adobe officials say, overcoming âthe constraints of a browser.â At the same time Apollo will give developers the ability to work with the Web 2.0 tools they are familiar with to develop desktop applications. Another old-line high-tech company, Wyse Technology, was on hand with a new concept in thin-client architecture dubbed âN10â that uses intelligent software to legislate where software is processed.
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Some game makers are trying to get players to expand their horizons by reflecting on news events in games
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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Magazine offers tech support, tips for Internet communications.
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Match your gadgets with the right software to really feel the burn. By Mathew Honan from Wired magazine.
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Soon on sale: hardware and software from a start-up whose software with a new approach for protecting data by dispersing it across several servers--and maybe even continents.
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Wired News gets its hands on new video cameras and production tools at this Los Angeles trade show.
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One Wired News correspondent cuts his connection to the cable company and doesn't look back. Can the internet supply enough video programming to entertain a family of five? By Robert Lemos.
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NEW YORK -- A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.
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America Online has had quite a bit of success with its AIM Robot (AIMBot) technology, including one that feeds users news headlines or on-demand news from the Wall Street
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A collection of sites with first-person accounts and photos
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As I said above I'm glued to the TV, but I'm also on Twitter, and blogging, and email, and IM and I'm subscribed to hundreds of RSS feeds, and I've been noticing that slowly the TV news organizations are integrating new Internet services with their TV offerings. They're all getting started, and eventually I'm pretty sure they'll be where Yahoo is now. The thing is, it works. For example, newmediajim is a cameraman for NBC News and he's on Twitter and sometimes I'm watching the other side of his camera on MSNBC and twittering with him before and after. A guy named creepsleepy is a radio guy in Manchester, interviewing presidential candidates, wouldn't it be great if I could listen to his interviews while he twitters his progress? Well, there's no doubt that soon we'll be doing that. We're finally really at the convergence so many have predicted for so long. With the help of a few members of the community Yahoo can get there first. BTW, I read on the NY Times site that Yahoo is going to open up more to developers. Hmmm. If you want to impress end-users and shareholders run it in MSM. If you want to get through to developers, use the developer blogs. Let us have the story first, otherwise you don't seem very serious about it.
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Reporter Ryan Singel files a 1,000-word story on the wiki phenomenon. In keeping with its spirit, we're throwing it on a wiki for collaborative editing by our readers. If you don't participate you can't complain about the results. By Wired News Staff.
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A new advertising platform attracts a major radio network. What will the experiment tell us?
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Wired News will be covering the RoboGames this weekend in San Francisco. Bookmark this page for ongoing coverage of combat bots, sumo bots, soccer bots and more.
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Chevrolet asks web users to make their own video spots for its Tahoe SUV. A case study in customer-generated advertising. By Frank Rose from Wired magazine.