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August 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Kaboodle, Kosmix and Gravee -- Oh My!

TAGS: Future tech

We all know that the DEMO shows, which market themselves as a "launchpad for emerging technology" can get a bit zany and hype-driven.

That's never more true than ever at this year's DEMOfall show, scheduled for Sept. 25-27 in San Diego. Scanning the list of companies who were at DEMOspring might make you think you've stumbled into the software aisle at Kaybee, what with names like BiggerBoat, Bones In Motion, Blurb, Gravee, Kosmix and MooBella on board.

Want a theme for this year's DEMO shows? Search. (Now there's a shocker.) Not surprisingly, many of the companies at Demospring and, we can assume, at Demofall, will be trying to hone in on Google's business.

Gravee's AdShare "fundamentally changes the economic model for search -- shifting power from content distributors (such as search engines) to content owners," Kosmix has "developed algorithms and technology that solve a complex engineering problem: categorizing the entire Web into understandable categories, such as women's health and adventure travel." Biggerboat is "the Internet's most comprehensive, entertainment industry specific search engine delivering cross-category, cross-format, and cross-retailer search results to online entertainment consumers." I could go on (and on..and on...)

Still, there's more than just search. Krugle and Jitterbit are two companies presenting cool new technology aimed at the open source community: Jitterbit has an open source integration tool for Windows and LInux for designing, configuring, testing and deploy integration solutions. Krugle's got a search engine for accessing open source code and other supporting information.

Then there's moobella, which is, as far as I can tell, an ice cream vending machine that can "produce a delicious scoop of ice cream within 45 seconds."

Now that's technology I can use!

Posted by Paul Roberts on August 30, 2006 04:01 PM

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