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September 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)

DEMOfall to land soon

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If emerging tech is what you live for, DEMO is the lifeblood. The showcase for next-gen tech is heating up and I thought I'd point out a round-up of what's getting blogged as a precurser to our own coverage of next week's event.

And despite the lackluster IT economy in general, reports say venture capitalists are ready to back the hopefuls. Let's hope some money flows and we start seeing an explosion of dot-com era innovation again.

But the fun part is the zanyness, as InfoWorld's Paul F. Roberts points out, highlights here:

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!

To get an idea what to expect via video, check out the spring show. And check back at InfoWorld.com here from Friday for our early coverage.

Posted by Mike Barton on September 20, 2006 04:58 PM

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