Sponsors
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Diamond Sponsors
Etelos provides customizable, on-demand, Web 2.0 applications for businesses. On the Etelos Store, developers can sell applications, businesses can try applications and Internet service providers can offer hosting services; in one Ecosystem with all the features of software as a service (SaaS) and all the flexibility of custom development.
Platinum Sponsors
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anywhere, anytime and through any medium. For more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.
AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country's largest Internet access business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC is based in Dulles, Virginia. AOL and its subsidiaries also have operations in Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com. AOL also provides a range of resources for developers to build customized third-party applications, plug-ins and mashups based on its leading products and services.
Coghead is a simple, powerful new way to create and share web-based business applications that can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere. Within a few hours, tech-savvy people can create applications with forms, a database, and business logic using Coghead's 100% web-based approach - no coding required. In addition, you can eliminate the need for cumbersome infrastructure - there's no hardware or software to buy, install, manage, or maintain. Use Coghead for CRM, Project Management, Inventory Management and much more. Join the webware revolution at: www.coghead.com.
Cognizant is a leading provider of IT services. Focused on delivering strategic information technology solutions that address the complex business needs of its clients, Cognizant uses its own on-site/offshore outsourcing model to provide applications management, development, integration, and reengineering; infrastructure management; business process outsourcing; and numerous related services, such as enterprise consulting, technology architecture, program management, and change management.
WebEx is the leading provider of SaaS applications for collaborative business on the web. WebEx applications enhance high-touch business processes, such as sales and training, with efficient web-touch interactions. WebEx delivers its applications over the MediaTone On-Demand Platform, a platform specifically designed for global delivery of SaaS applications. MediaTone APIs make it easy for developers to build specialized applications that leverage the platform’s real-time collaboration capabilities.
Gold Sponsors
Launched in 2002, Amazon opened its internal technologies to the developer community, to enable them to build robust applications to drive on-line businesses. Provided in the form of open API's, Amazon has now launched ten web services, that enable developers access to inexpensive, scalable web-based business solutions and infrastructure. Amazon has spent 10 years and over $2 billion dollars battle-testing these web services to ensure that they could respond to the extreme demands of the world's largest E-Commerce site. To learn more about AWS visit http://aws.amazon.com. Amazon Web Services LLC is an Amazon.com company.
Ask.com is a leading search engine on the Web, combining world-class search technology with one-of-a-kind search tools to help people get what they are looking for faster. Ask.com sites include Ask.com US (http://www.Ask.com), Ask.com Deutschland, Ask.com España, Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia, Ask.com Japan, Ask.com Nederlands and Ask.com UK. Additionally, Ask.com syndicates its search technology and advertising units to a network of affiliate partners. Ask.com is a division of IAC Search & Media, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp.
Cambrian House is home to the world’s first crowdsourcing community: a diverse collective of creative, tech-savvy and entrepreneurial minds who collaboratively build and commercialize businesses that matter. We’re “community-owned” meaning all contributors in the community can share in the success of the products. We're leading the movement from user-generated-content to user-generated businesses.
Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries.
Curl provides a Rich Internet Application platform for building and deploying Web-based applications that demand complex, highly interactive interfaces previously only possible as client-server applications. Using Curl, developers can implement a new class of complex, business-critical, Web-based applications that cannot easily be developed with Ajax or other smart client technologies. Curl allows corporations with legacy client-server applications to move to Web-based delivery, increasing reach and reducing cost. Founded in 1998, Curl is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumisho Computer Systems. Curl has over 300 customers and 40 partners world-wide.
eBay, founded in 1995, pioneers communities built on commerce, sustained by trust and inspired by opportunity. eBay enables e-commerce on a local, national and international basis with an array of websites - including the eBay Marketplaces, PayPal, Skype, Kijiji, Rent.com and Shopping.com - that bring together millions of buyers and sellers every day.
FAST creates the real-time search and filtering solutions that are behind the scenes at the world’s best known companies with the most demanding search problems. FAST’s flexible and scalable integrated technology platform elevates the search capabilities of enterprise customers and connects people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.
Hinchcliffe & Company is a premier consulting and education solutions firm that helps companies around the world -- from Internet startups to Fortune 500 firms -- rapidly apply Web 2.0 to their businesses, products, and services. Based out of Alexandria, Virginia, Hinchcliffe & Company provides a variety of methods for helping organizations navigate the major changes in business models and product design being driven by the transformational effects of Web 2.0. Using Web 2.0 University(tm), Product-in-a-Day(tm) and a carefully customized learning and execution progression, we help companies create successful new products and reinvigorate existing ones. Hinchcliffe & Company can help maximize the potential of your team across the business and technical landscape from entire product strategies and corporate transformation to rapid technology adoption of the latest lightweight, agile methods of Web design and development.
At IBM, we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide. Our WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli, Rational, and Data Management software brands are aligned around a single, focused business model: innovation. IBM takes its breadth and depth of insight on connecting operating systems, business processes, and applications seamlessly, and invents and applies technology to help solve its clients' most intractable business and competitive problems.
Impetus Technologies, Inc. is a pioneer in outsourced software product development and support services (OPD). Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley California, Impetus Technologies has US offices in Cupertino, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Boston, and Noida, Indore, and Hyderabad, India. With over 800 engineers focused on all phases of product development, we have been involved in hundreds of product launches in emerging technology areas such as Mobile & Wireless, Digital Media , IPTV, Web Search, Internet Advertising, Gaming as well as the Enterprise class application space. The company has earned 100% client satisfaction through a talent driven and service oriented relationship model. Please contact Impetus at: inquiry@impetus.com
Intel Corporation collaborated with several software companies on the launch of SuiteTwo, a business Internet suite. The integrated suite, a family of interconnected services combined to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing, is comprised of business Web 2.0 capabilities from leading software companies including Six Apart, Socialtext, NewsGator, SimpleFeed, SpikeSource, and VisiblePath. Intel Capital, Intel's venture capital organization, pioneered the assembly of this suite. Intel's Software and Solutions Group plans to make the suite available through its extensive OEM and reseller sales channels as well as participating software partners.
Nokia Nseries is a range of high performance multimedia computers that delivers unparalleled mobile multimedia experiences by combining the latest technologies with stylish design and ease of use. With Nokia Nseries products, consumers can use a single device to enjoy entertainment, access information and to capture and share pictures and videos, on the go at any time. Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses.
Founded in 1998, PayPal is one of the world's largest online payment services. With its cutting-edge fraud technology, PayPal is also one of the world's most trusted e-commerce solutions. Companies that tap PayPal's global user base of more than 100 million accounts can increase sales at a low cost. Some of the merchants that accept PayPal currently include Dell, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, PetSmart, Walgreens, McAfee, StarbucksStore.com and more. For PayPal developer resources, visit www.paypal.com/developer.
With a single key to the kingdom, what will be the cost of better security for single sign-on to the web? How about zero? Vidoop eliminates passwords, provides robust security, and gives websites an incentive to embrace Identity 2.0. And your website generates revenue when users authenticate using Vidoop. Interested?
Web 2.0 is about empowerment of the non-technical population to create, contribute and participate in any form of communication or commerce, where the best technology virtually disappears in the process, and is about responsible, functional business models that are sustainable. Web2Corp focuses on innovative, rapid adaptation of Internet technologies to solve problems; something our management has done since the Internet was founded. We deliberately avoided the ".0" in our name because we already deliver next generation products--Web 2.1, or 2.9. Our popular products like www.ByIndia.com, www.ChamberECommerce.com and www.YouGetIt.com are leading the way. A talented, fast-moving company, we are Web2!
The Yahoo! Publisher Network provides small and medium-sized web-publishers the ability to monetize their site traffic with the distribution of Yahoo! Search Marketing's contextual ad product. The launch of the Yahoo! Publisher Network has extended its contextual ad network to a broader set of the online community, thus providing value to publisher, advertiser and end-user through increased inventory. In addition, it also provides the publishing community with access to a variety of tools and resources from the entire Yahoo! network that enhances the web-experience and drives traffic to their websites.
Silver Sponsors
Coradiant's User Performance Management equipment watches every web user request in real time. Web operators detect problems when they happen, with the details they need to fix complex issues, and report on the end-user experience. The results are consistent application performance, dramatically lower time-to-repair, proper dispute resolution and accurate capacity planning.
Dapper is the leading web integration company, enabling a new, open and portable web where content can be easily disseminated in new ways, such as RSS, widgets or APIs. Dapper empowers anyone to visually transform any website into a building block that can then be inserted into another website, application or device, allowing content providers to leverage their content to new audiences and web services. By eliminating the tremendous technological and business relationship barriers that exist when reusing other people's content in web services, Dapper empowers both content providers and content consumers to form a new customized version of the web where dynamic content moves around seamlessly and legitimately.
Denodo is unique in delivering a single platform that combines data integration, web extraction and index/search tools to enable real time Data Mash-ups of internal and external, structured and unstructured data. Our fast and affordable solutions help organizations of any size create new data aggregations and holistic views of an entity or business process. Visit us to learn how Denodo can extend the reach of your business intelligence, single customer view, compliance, B2B integration and other initiatives by bridging the gap between Enterprise and Web 2.0. Founded in 1999 in Spain, Denodo is now headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
effectiveUI has brought together the diverse skills of user experience designers and software developers to create robust applications that focus on the user experience. effectiveUI's focus on usability and engagement has allowed them to make products that are simple to use and beautifully designed. Some of the most prestigious and reputable brands worldwide have turned to effectiveUI for projects where the quality of the user experience is critical. To find out how effectiveUI is improving user experience for Fortune 500 companies, stop by their booth #417, across from Google, and visit www.effectiveui.com.
Egnyte delivers a web based application that uniquely combines sharing, automatic organization and a powerful search capability. Use Egnyte to store and organize your documents, emails, IM and to share this with others. Eliminate the manual posting, versioning and emailing that occurs when you work in a team. With Egnyte, you can synchronize information from your desktop to the web, automatically create versions when you make changes, and notify your team with the latest updates. The search and browse capabilities let you quickly find any information. A range of information workers from students to enterprise teams are using Egnyte.
eSnips is a dynamic social sharing site targeted to online affinity groups and niche communities where adults with similar interests can share, promote and sell any digital content showcasing their talents and passions from one centralized place. Members can easily create new communities to discover and discuss each other’s interests. Inside eSnips communities, where peers determine what content is compelling, social sharing extends to the smallest, most esoteric niche groups who would not otherwise have a voice or presence on the Web. Unique to social networks, eSnips users can share any media type on one site and users’ diversity of interests attracts an older audience than its peers.
Fatdoor will launch at Web 2.0 on April 15, 2007. Fatdoor is a venture backed company in downtown Palo Alto. The company is founded by top technical and marketing talent from Google and Microsoft. Do you know your neighbors?
Fotango is an innovative software and systems development business, building cutting edge technology solutions aimed at professional developers and SME businesses. Zimki is Fotango's flagship product, a JavaScript web application development platform that enables developers and businesses to build and deploy web apps quickly without the need for tools, equipment or hosting. With no set-up fees and subscription charges,users simply pay for the computing resources that they consume on a utility basis.
JackBe delivers enterprise mashup software that empowers application developers and users to create, customize and share enterprise mashups for faster decisions and better business results. Our innovative enterprise mashup platform Presto provides a dynamic integration approach to building enterprise mashup applications faster, leveraging internal and external data, while meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. Presto provides enterprise mashups delivered to the user in 3 clicks versus 3 months.
Juniper Networks develops purpose-built, high performance IP platforms that enable customers to support a wide variety of services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions rely on Juniper to deliver a portfolio of proven networking, security and application acceleration solutions that solve highly complex, fast-changing problems in the world's most demanding networks.
Kapow Technologies is a leader in Mashup Serving, Feed Serving and Web Scraping software that enables companies to deploy content-intensive applications such as enterprise mashups and Web 2.0 applications at a fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional software methods. Because of its patented, unique visual scripting approach, Kapow Technologies is one of the fastest-growing software firms in the world, with more than 200 customers including Global 2000 firms such as AT&T, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, CSFB, Intel, Vodafone, U.S. Army, Audi and Deutsche Post (DHL) and Web 2.0 startups including SimplyHired, Momondo.com and Ziggs.com.
Layered Technologies, Inc. is a provider of next generation self-managed, dedicated server products and services. Through bundling hardware, software, bandwidth, and Tier 1 data centers, Layered Technologies serves clients in over 120 countries. Layered Technologies' goal is to provide solutions that allow enterprise customers and small and medium businesses to tap instant on-demand hosting and utility computing. For more information about Layered Technologies, visit www.layeredtech.com or www.thegridlayer.com.
LongJump provides a platform for customizable business applications that run on the Web and that anyone can create and integrate to handle data-driven, process-intense operations. In addition, LongJump provides a series of interconnected, ready-to-go applications that pivot business data around each individual, while also promoting collaboration and streamlining workflow.
Top 7 reasons to consider the Microsoft platform for Web 2.0 development: 1) Best business partnership for developers and solution providers 2) Free developer tools. 3) Faster web app development (e.g. Atlas) 4) Scalable 5) Interoperable 6) Greater fidelity 7) Reach. Find out more at the Microsoft Closing Session and Microsoft Booth #117 and enter our contest to win cash.
MindTouch is the most comprehensive vendor of business wiki solutions. Our award-winning products make collaboration easy in the enterprise and harness the people’s voice by enabling user-generated content in online wiki communities. We also have an extensible development and integration platform for Web 2.0 services. Our MindTouch Deki software, appliance and hosted (SaaS) products scale from a few users in a small business to millions in an online community. Currently we host 45,000 wikis for consumers, small businesses, enterprises, research institutions and public agencies worldwide.
RSSBus is an integrated framework of tools and services that simplifies the process of producing, consuming, and integrating structured information feeds, enabling easy creation of a simple yet effective layer of middleware that drives information flow. RSSBus is presented by /n software, a leading provider of software components for communications, security, and e-business.
Octopz,is a next generation on-demand, online collaboration technology designed to support the iterative way creative professionals work and the applications and media formats they already use. With built-in support for text messaging, VoIP and webcams, Octopz allows colleagues and partners anywhere in the world to work together securely in real-time, or individually at their own convenience, using an unprecedented range of document types (including videos, interactive Flash content, panoramas and Yahoo!® Maps). Team members can then save and archive their work for subsequent retrieval, review and critical feedback. The result is accelerated decision making and speed-to-market – a significant competitive edge.
OrangeHRM Inc. is offering an open source human resource information system (HRIS) that reflects the main areas of HR management. Based on Web 2.0 principles, OrangeHRM is being developed into a comprehensive, highly functional and flexible HRM solution, applicable to diverse business industries. Collaborating with HR and IT professionals OrangeHRM harnesses collective intelligence and constantly enhances the product. The growing OrangeHRM user community, increasing number of downloads and the high rank on the SourceForge.net prove that OrangeHRM builds on the momentum of the open source movement and is evolving into the best free HR management system.
Radialpoint provides managed Value Added Service (VAS) solutions for the largest Broadband Service Providers (BSPs). Radialpoint's managed VAS solutions deliver tangible business results enabling BSPs to generate new revenues and reduce the costs of delivering and supporting new services. Our proven approach combines best-in-class consumer services optimized for a consistent user experience, with innovative service intelligence and VAS management capabilities. Radialpoint manages over 50 VAS programs available to over 20 million subscribers worldwide. Our customers include: Bell Canada, TELUS and Videotron in Canada; Adelphia, BellSouth and Verizon in the US; and Virgin Media in Europe. For more information, visit http://www.radialpoint.com/.
Reply [REY.MI] is specialized in design and implementation of solutions based on new digital media and communication channels. Relying on a network of specialized companies, Reply provides companies in the Telecom & Media, Manufacturing, Finance and Public Administration sectors with applications to optimize corporate processes and state-of-the-art technology to enable communication among customers, partners and suppliers. Reply services include Consulting, System Integration, Application Management and Business Process Outsourcing. Founded in 1996 Reply [REY.MI] has seen in the last financial year revenue of more than 230 Million of Euro. Further information is available at : www.reply.eu
Salesforce.com's Apex Platform is the world’s first platform for on-demand application development, empowering developers to create and deploy innovative business applications entirely over the Internet and with just a Web browser. Now you can build on-demand databases, mashups and integrations using the Apex API, one of the most widely used enterprise Web services, and Apex Code, the world’s first on-demand programming language. Explore this powerful platform by signing up for a free Apex Developer Network account, which provides the tools, development environment, and samples you need to get started.
Socialtext is the leading enterprise wiki company. They provide enterprise-class social software for collaboration and knowledge management that works the way people do -- creating a centralized resource with decentralized contribution. Traditional groupware and knowledge management tools use top-down constraints: pre-defined roles, workflows, and categories. Socialtext takes a bottom-up approach to collaborating and empowers people to develop their own solutions. With Socialtext, people form groups flexibly, and build lightweight structure on the fly, as part of getting their job done – all with ease, simplicity and value of the world’s most reliable wiki.
As a global firm, Sonnenschein Venture Technology Group represents emerging growth and Fortune 500 clients in sectors including life sciences, medical devices, telecommunications, semiconductors and information technology. This includes assisting these companies in their efforts to commercialize innovative technologies. Matters encompass venture capital, private equity and other strategic transactions, including seed financings; developing and executing exit strategies, restructurings or growth strategies; initial public offerings; procurement of working capital and other debt arrangements; and assisting in the solution of state and federal grants. Additionally, we aid clients with efforts to access capital on their behalf and provide perspective and insight on issues related to industry practice and customs, including governance, stock option and executive compensation, employment, and intellectual property protection.
StrikeIron is the leader in facilitating the consumption and distribution of live data and business functionality over the Web. The company's breakthrough Web Services Marketplace provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management and a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows end-users and ISVs to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. Currently, StrikeIron provides over 100 live data sources and business functions as well as a set of products and tools to simplify and accelerate the consumption of data such as StrikeIron's SOA Express, enabling business users to access live data via front office applications. StrikeIron services over 500 customers and partners such as BEA, IBM, Honda Europe, D&B, Time Warner, Siemens, Nike, Kenwood, and Exclusive Resorts.
Sun Microsystems, a creator and industry leading advocate of emerging technologies, is revolutionizing and redefining system-wide management of rich, standards-compliant, Internet applications for the Web 2.0 generation. Beyond technologies, Sun delivers a complete, interworking infrastructure for today's businesses, from state-of-the-art eco-friendly servers and storage systems to award-winning, open, integrated, and interoperable software offerings. When it comes to Web 2.0 projects, Sun provides best-of-breed solutions to enterprises worldwide for developing, deploying, and managing next-generation web applications. For more information, please visit http://sun.com/ajax
Tellme fundamentally improves how people and businesses use the phone by replacing traditional phone infrastructure and offerings with an Internet model for building and delivering phone services. Using an open standards platform with Internet-based applications, the innovation and economics of the Internet are starting to come to the phone. With this shift, expect new capabilities in telephone communications, commerce and directory services to come to market faster and with greater diversity than ever. Today Tellme platform is considered one of the largest of its kind, handling billions of calls per year for more than 35 million people every month. Headquartered in Mountain View, California., Tellme is pioneering a new era where the phone becomes a faster, more powerful way to connect to the things you want every day.
ThinkFree Online, the first-ever online office suite, provides free access to create and edit documents on the Web. Formats include Microsoft Word,Excel, PowerPoint and conversion for Open Document Format files. 1 GB of free storage, collaboration, blog publishing, version management and other easy to use but powerful features prompted the Wall Street Journal to call ThinkFree Online "one of the most full-featured offerings." At the forefront of Web 2.0 technology, ThinkFree offers: the best compatibility with Microsoft Office available, the most complete and flexible online solution taking advantage of AJAX, Flash and Java technologies, continued innovation with mash-ups for Flickr, Creative Commons, del.icio.us, and our own ThinkFree Viewer.
Venyo is building a free online reputation management tool to offer a unified and standardized measure of the personal reliability of each user through the evaluation of his contributions by the community: the Vindex™. Certifying the published material quality will increase the trust level of Web2.0 users and advertisers.
ZCubes is a browser based platform that greatly enhances users’ web experience. It empowers users to seamlessly integrate a variety of content including websites, media, feeds, paint, handwriting and more. ZCubes has a built-in, fully functional browser that takes browsing and search to the next level. It easily transforms from a juiced-up browser to a sophisticated painting tool to a shared whiteboard and more. Users can completely personalize, and share content without complicated coding. The resulting content can be saved to disk or shared by publishing it online. Once persisted, the experience can be further enhanced, edited and republished by other users.
Zoho offers an online office suite with a wide range of applications such as: word processors, spreadsheets, presentations and Wikis. It also includes CRM; project management; and other additional applications. It is an affordable option for business users, and is free for individuals. Zoho is located in Pleasanton, California and a division of AdventNet.
Launch Pad Sponsors
O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators and hackers of the status quo. From open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence, O’Reilly Media has played a key role as trend spotter and advocate for putting world-changing technologies on the map. OATV is our effort to bring the legacy, resources and relationships of O’Reilly to each investment we make.
Startup Capital is an early stage investor in innovative ideas with talented people. We are looking for niche verticals such as customer relationship management, accounting, personal information management, mobile technologies and more. One of our investments is in International Brands and their portfolio of revenue generating internet properties, RetailRecruters.com, DatingTips.com, JobRecruiting.com, eFriends.com, eMatch.com and others. We also purchase internet web addresses that have direct navigation, some examples are WineList.com, UncleSam.com, USAuto.com, OutBox.com, and eShops.com to complement our investments.























