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PlugandPlay Expo Spring 2008
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Microsoft   Sun Microsystems   Silicon Valley Bank   Orrick   Greenberg Traurig   Forum Nokia   Global Catalyst Partners   Northwest   Fenwick   Heffernan Insurance Brokers   Augmentum   Foundation Capital

The Keynote Speakers

Dan'l Lewin, Microsoft Corporation Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business Development

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Dan'l Lewin is corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, responsible for managing worldwide strategic business relationships with venture capitalists and emerging venture-capital-backed businesses, as well as managing the business relationship with leading global industry partners such as SUN, Adobe, Intuit and BEA to ensure their applications interoperate with and run well on the Microsoft platform – for the benefit of the companies' common customers. Lewin is based at Microsoft’s Mountain View, Calif. campus.

A 25-year Silicon Valley veteran, Lewin was most recently CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc., an enterprise software company focused on intellectual property asset management. He also spent 18 years as an executive, leading sales and marketing divisions for companies including Apple Computer Corp., NeXT Inc. and GO Corporation. In addition, Lewin has served as a consultant for emerging companies, venture capital firms and corporate joint ventures.

Lewin holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University.


Dinesh Bahal, Vice President, Sun Microsystems

Dinesh Bahal Sun Microsystems


The Winners of the Expo Spring 2008
BiancaMed Project Playlist
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Presented Companies
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Playlist.com is a social music network and the largest collection of playlists online. It is a place to easily find songs, create & discover playlists and share them with friends. Our mission at Playlist.com is to organize the rapidly growing abundance of music on the web for the benefit of the worldwide music community - artists, songwriters, music distributors, and listeners alike.

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FuGen Solutions is the industry's leading independent provider of managed identity services. Centered on its on-demand pre-production scanning, testing and verification MISP/TM Platform, FuGen Solutions allows large enterprise customers to rapidly deploy complex identity management solutions, including support for proprietary and standards-based identity federation, Open ID, user-centric identity and mobile identity services.

For more information contact » Lena Kannappan

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Now is a great time to distribute independent films online. Ninety- nine percent of independent films are never distributed by the studios to the public because the existing methods of distributing film are too costly. This ultimately is to the detriment of both filmmakers and film viewers. Caachi offers filmmakers the means to sell their films for download directly to the public, bypassing traditional distributors.

For more information contact » Charles Choi

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PhoneTag´s award winning service uses advanced technology to convert voicemail-to-text and deliver it via e-mail and SMS. Voicemail transcriptions are automatically delivered in near real-time with the caller's phone number in the e-mail subject line, transcribed voice message in the body and an attached audio file of the original message.

For more information contact » James Siminoff

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ChatAny is a Consumer Internet startup based in Sunnyvale that focuses on enabling 100% true Interactivity over the Internet with extreme ease of use and availability for ages 13 to 99.

For more information contact » Benjamin Sun

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Adjustables, a Silicon Valley-based technology company founded in 2006 by seasoned internet and broadcasting professionals, provides the technology to enhance online video content with interactive visual elements inserted directly into online video streams.

For more information contact » Jan van Ottele

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TeamRankings.com is your source for statistically driven ratings, analysis, and predictions for pro and college sports. Our mission is to use data to help sports fans get smart about the games they love. Our power ratings and predictive tools incorporate highly sophisticated and objective analysis methods.

For more information contact » Tom Federico

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Search-To-Phone is a voice-driven search application that takes a consumers spoken request for a local product or service and returns many, pre-qualified results in 60 seconds. This unique call/lead system introduces efficiencies into the long-stale Yellow Pages process for both merchants and the consumers they are trying to reach. The tremendous pay-per-performance revenue potential does not rely on advertising and does not require a pre-existing relationship with merchants.

For more information contact » Carmin Turco

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Fantasy Sports Matrix is a fan-driven sports network focused on empowering sports fans with identities as both individuals and as a community. We believe that fantasy sports are about more than just leagues, stats, and drafts, but about the social phenomenon that drives it. From the sharing and discovery of information, to the conversations at the water cooler, fantasy sports have redefined today´s fan. Coupled with the increased accessibility of sports media, sports fans are smarter, louder, and more passionate than ever. Yet they still exist as a homeless and faceless online community.

For more information contact » Jay Srinivasan

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Zephyr is an Enterprise 2.0 system that will transform test management in Engineering and IT Departments. It is an intuitive, feature rich yet affordable Next Generation Test Management System with a best-in-class UI and a collaborative, customizable experience that fosters strong user identification with our brand. It has been designed by Test Engineers based on multiple years of real world test experience in managing and running large and small test departments

For more information contact » Samir Shah

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EPSODIC offers a quality, content-creation solution to more than 200 million US gamers for turning their favorite game play moments into short-form movies, which allows them to share their tales with other gamers and nongamers alike by leveraging our patent-pending technology.

For more information contact » Jaewoo Jung

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Oomble is the web-to-mobile platform to discover, deliver and manage digital media for your phone. Oomble provides a drop-dead easy way for consumers to discover digital content on the web or the desktop and wirelessly deliver it to the cell phone. Oomble is a destination web site that provides users a real-time "view into the cell phone" of the digital media that is actually stored in the phone itself (e.g., both internal memory and microSD card) and enables users to truly manage one´s personal digital media by aggregating media from different sources and then making such media centrally available for delivery directly to the phone.

For more information contact » Dan Lin

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Mixbook enables easy collaboration by providing a solution where users can create photo collages in a powerful online interface, and then invite their friends to add photos and pages to compile their collages into interactive photobooks. Mixbook users can also create photobooks in seconds using its proprietary algorithm, "AutoMix™", which intelligently groups and positions users’ photos to instantly create a "Mixbook" for them. Photobooks can be embedded as slideshows on the top 95% of social sites, including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Wordpress, Blogger and Freewebs, or users can have their work professionally printed.

For more information contact » Andrew Laffoon

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Tipjoy makes micropayments work. We will succeed where other micropayment services have failed by focusing on designing our product to spread rather than solely on collecting money. We make it extremely easy to sign up and start leaving money for stuff you love online - so easy that initially, we’re making paying voluntary. Rather than turning people away by gating content, Tipjoy allows people to choose to leave a tip for a content if they think it was valuable.

For more information contact » Abby Kirigin

  
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Layerstream technology offers a novel way of streaming live data over the Internet, or other shared IP networks with unprecedented quality of service.

For more information contact » Joost Schreve

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HHOTT.com is a revolutionary and patent-pending Web 2.0 platform that redefines web browsing and interaction over the Internet by transforming every single web page into a Web 2.0 enabled social networking page and enabling rich media sharing and social networking for everyone and on every website.

For more information contact » Andy Parng

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Supercool School makes online learning social by democratizing the learning process and empowering everyone to demand, create and participate in live and interactive online classes.

For more information contact » Steli Efti

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Friend2Friend is creating social advertising that works - built on product recommendations and opinions between friends. Its consumer application, ProductPulse, engages users and their friends (across social networks) in an on-going dialog about products.

For more information contact » Roger Katz

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SiftIn aka Sifted Internet, uses latest advances in browser and web development technology to move the web data processing to client-side. As of now, it complements old school crawler based technology to avoid some of its pitfalls, and provides Internet’s first personal and configurable sifting engine.

For more information contact » Nitin K. Gupta

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Xpree provides prediction market solutions for corporations. Prediction markets utilize wisdom of crowds to overcome bias and enhance forecast accuracy. An Enterprise 2.0 solution, prediction markets enable employees to collaborate around estimating future events and metrics. Used to forecast ship dates, sales volumes or strategic events, market based solutions have repeatedly demonstrated their superiority compared to more traditional forecasting methods.

For more information contact » Mat Fogarty

  
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CellSpin provides a free, secure, intelligent, one-click, easy-to-use graphical user interface for capturing images, audio, video and text and publishing them to one or many of your favorite blogging, social networking, photo sharing, and auction sites simultaneously while leveraging a unique non-intrusive mobile advertising platform for monetization.

For more information contact » Bobby Gurvinder Singh

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MobileLife is a mobility enabler for online business communities and brands with an initial focus on online social networks (SNs). As a technology aggregator and service provider, we take SNs mobile and extend their brand and revenues via mobile advertising. Our approach is based on User Experience and personalization. MobileLife will enable SN consumers to conduct their socialization end-to-end, irrespective of the device or service provider, through a comprehensive and easy to use application.

For more information contact » Sasan Vossoughi

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Course Hero is an open online study community for students, teachers and self-learners to publish and view academic resources online: outlines, solutions, study guides, exams, presentations, notes, formula sheets, essays and other works.

For more information contact » Andrew Grauer

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Bay Com LLC has developed a proprietary application that leverages text messaging to provide metrics and interactivity for traditional media. DSR numbers provide traditional advertising click-thru capability. DSR or Dial-Send-Read is an innovative new concept that utilizes phone numbers to trigger automatic text, picture, or video messages when dialed from a mobile device.

For more information contact » Evan Currid

  
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Emergency Fall provides a vision system, based on technology developed at Stanford University, which uses advanced software algorithms to accurately detect and prevent a potential fall. Critical or fatal injury is avoided and medical complications are prevented as a result.

For more information contact » Arash Shokouh

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muvee is the pioneer and leader in developing software that automatically transforms photos and videos into emotionally engaging video productions across multiple platforms.

For more information contact » Terence Swee

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Wirama´s technology enables retailers to achieve both of these goals by producing a quantum leap in inventory management for retail. Retailers today face huge losses due to their inability to keep track of inventory.

For more information contact » Ben Wild

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Emulogic Inc is a start-up company designing a unique software/hardware solution for the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry. Emulogic products will be used in the verification of large-scale digital designs.

For more information contact » Art Stamness

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PreviewMe.tv is a video production company providing affordable online video commercials and advertising for small to medium size businesses. We are creating a group of professional sales people who visit small to medium size businesses and develop relationships as we educate the business owner about the importance for them to enhance their web presence using rich media (video commercials). We provide the business owner with advertising opportunities to bring potential customers to view their video commercial on their web site and our web site as we host their video commercial on our video business directory.

For more information contact » Ronald L. Scadina

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Morf Mobile easily extends your business to mobile with a hosted service without the time and expense of getting carrier approval. Our mobile community platform gives customers superior engagement with their consumers, and an opportunity to grow revenues. The company monetizes its free consumer service by sharing transaction and advertising revenue with its customers. We have 1st mover advantage with patent pending technologies.

For more information contact » Van Jepson

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Kaos War is a three-sided battle between good, evil and those caught in-between. Players can choose among three races: Deva (angels), Al'gar (demons), and Humans.

For more information contact » Damon Grow

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TuSocioBPO is a full-featured Business Process Management Suite available through the Internet browser, software as a service (SaaS) model or much better, what we call, Process as a service (PaaS) focus to build a collaboration and knowledge network.

For more information contact » Alejandro Arriaga

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Togetherville, Inc. is a Silicon Valley Internet technology, for-profit corporation focused on putting the power of the Internet to use for 4-10 year old children and creating their ultimate learning tool.

For more information contact » Mandeep Dhillon

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MessageDance is a web-based social media platform that enables interacting on social networks and blogs as simple as sending an email. Its unique message processing capability leverages the most widely used communication tool, email, to enable digital media sharing, content publishing, and conversations with friends, coworkers and customers.

For more information contact » Brij Singh

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SecurAct is an early-stage startup focused on superior technology solutions to address common complex problems related to user access and entitlements across business critical SaaS applications, and provide related comprehensive visibility and compliance reports. User management solutions have traditionally been viewed as being highly complex and very expensive, requiring lengthy deployments. It does not have to be that way any more!

For more information contact » SecurAct

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BiancaMed was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 2003 with a focus on health and wellness monitoring in the home. Its particular interest is in the measurement and analysis of sleep and breathing using a unique patented non-contact biomotion sensor technology (LifeSenseTM).

For more information contact » Conor Hanley

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Allbalers is a social network for basketball players. Read and post information, news and rumours around the whole basketball scene, and get in contact with basketball players, fans, coaches, clubs or agents- worldwide! Find your old, actual and future team-mates and clubs.

For more information contact » Holger Stockey

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Fair Software is an online community for software developers to collaborate and share revenue from software they produce together. Fair Software assigns shares to contributors, representing a percentage of future revenue.

For more information contact » Alain Raynaud

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Phonevite (by Ifonoclast, Inc.) is being used by thousands of groups and organizations, today, to send free phone reminders and important notifications through a self-serve, Software as a Service (SaaS), web application (www.phonevite.com ).

For more information contact » John Nahm

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MyWay Interactive hosts an SaaS system for global account sales teams. The system has characteristics of both CRM as well as Facebook, and operates outside of the corporate firewall. We provide communication between disparate sales teams that share a common goal – closing an opportunity.

For more information contact » David Anderson

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An online based bidding system that not only consolidates sales of airtime on various advertising based digital signage providers, but also allows artists all over the world to sell the creative to interested advertisers who might not otherwise have them. This gives advertisers a way to purchase an advertisement as well as purchase the airtime in which to use it. Finally, our online software can track and merge metrics across all venue purchases thus helping advertisers and ad agencies (as well as the providers) realize the overall cost and effectiveness.

For more information contact » Matthew Olivieri

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SocialCalendar provides the new, easy way to keep track of important dates like birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine´s Day, Mother´s Day etc. Users can also share events with their significant others or friends; and make plans together.

For more information contact » Raj Lalwani

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Novauris was founded in 2002 by Jim Baker, Melvyn Hunt, and John Bridle, pioneers of automatic speech recognition in academia and industry. Since its inception, Novauris has focused on developing core speech technologies and solutions for simple, convenient spoken search and access to millions of pieces of information with minimal dialogue, in most cases requiring the user to make only one input.

For more information contact » Yoon Kim

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Mylocator allows people to search through categories of domains that are networked bringing better results faster. The potential for increased revenues due to better targeted search results could also be enormous.

For more information contact » Danny McGowan

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RateItAll is an online community built upon one of the most extensive and diverse online databases of opinions, ratings, and reviews in the world. Participating members of RateItAll can earn cash for various activities on the site.

For more information contact » Lawrence Coburn

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