Boxee
Boxee is the first social media center, an open-source software platform for entertainment across computers or traditional living room devices. Boxee’s TV-like interface lets users enjoy personal videos, music, and photos as well as content from Internet services like Hulu, CBS.com, Last.fm, Flickr, etc. In addition, users can share information about what they’re watching with friends so they can find it legally and enjoy it too. All this, from within a visually driven interface that makes media come to life.
Verivue
Verivue is an early stage company developing advanced networking solutions for the distribution of digital media services. The Company’s executives and founders are all experienced and successful entrepreneurs with extensive background in the design, development and marketing of innovative products for the service provider market segment.
Verified Identity Pass
Verified Identity Pass has created a private, voluntary, biometric “fast pass” system. Members go through one application process to obtain one card that will grant them expedited security screening at multiple venues including airports, office buildings and sports arenas.
For more information or to enroll please visit www.flyclear.com
Twitter is a new kind of communication utility inspired by the concept of a status or “away” message. Updates of 140 characters or less are shared in real-time among networks of individuals through Twitter over a variety of existing services around the world. Twitter currently works over Mobile Texting (SMS), Instant Message, Social Networks and other web sites, and hundreds of specialty applications built on an open API. For more information please visit twitter.com.
Veoh Networks
Veoh Networks is the first truly independent Internet Television Broadcasting System, able to reach hundreds of millions of broadband-connected viewers throughout the world. Veoh allows content producers from motion picture studios and television networks to independent video producers and enthusiasts to deliver high-quality, full-screen video directly to consumers without financial, geographical or regulatory restrictions found in traditional broadcasting systems. This democratization of video distribution fundamentally changes the dynamics of television, creating unprecedented choice for consumers and a compelling marketplace for content providers and advertisers. Based in San Diego, Veoh is privately held and backed by leading technology and media investors, including Spark Capital, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Time Warner Investments and Shelter Capital Partners. To start broadcasting or watching video with Veoh, visit veoh.com.
Tumblr
Tumblelogs are the refreshingly simple new way to share anything you find, love, hate, or create.
Tumblr is a web service that makes it easy to express yourself online in beautiful style. With Tumblr a user can create a tumblelog. A tumblelog is short-form blog that often consists of mixed media and multiple posts that flow together; the result is often a stream of consciousness of the author. Tumblr is located in New York, and the Founder and CEO is David Karp.
Tjet Technologies
TJet is committed to making Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) based displays the dominant flat panel display technology.
thePlatform
Headquartered in Seattle, thePlatform is an industry-leading provider of digital media publishing solutions. The company’s flagship product, thePlatform Media Publishing System (MPS), is a comprehensive solution for media, entertainment and enterprise customers. With thePlatform MPS, customers can publish digital media anywhere - over any network, to any device. Leading customers include ABC News, Amp’d Mobile, Bank of America, CNBC, Comcast, Court TV, GoTV Networks, Microsoft, National Geographic, Scripps Networks, The Wall Street Journal Online and Verizon Wireless. Custom feature enhancements and seamless systems integration are a simple matter using thePlatform’s Web services MPS-SDK.
ThePlatform was acquired by Comcast in 2006.
SendMe
SendMe, Inc. is a leading provider of “direct-to-consumer” mobile entertainment, offering the broadest selection of mobile subscription services available online in the US. Whether it’s interactive mobile trivia, the latest ringtones and wallpaper, mobile sweepstakes or one of its many other services, SendMe is focused on delivering the best wireless entertainment content and experiences straight to consumers.
Founded in June 2006, SendMe’s venture capital financing comes from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Amicus and a select group of angel investors/advisors. For more information, visit www.SendMeMobile.com or www.SoLow.com.
Next New Networks
Next New Networks is a media company that is creating micro television networks over the internet for targeted communities, bringing together elements of traditional TV networks with Internet functionality that invites viewers to contribute, share and distribute content. The company is led by a team of traditional and new media veterans hailing from MTV, Nickelodeon, AOL Excite and Turner Broadcasting. Headquartered in New York City, Next New Networks is privately held.
Menara Networks
Menara Networks is an early stage company developing unique products that greatly simplify the layered optical networks. Leveraging our team’s extensive and complementary expertise, we have developed fundamental and proprietary innovations. Menara products enable optical networks with far superior performance and fewer network elements. They provide equipment vendors with unique opportunities for expanded addressable markets and new revenues; and translate into simplified network engineering rules, faster service turn-up, and significant reduction in the capital and operational expenditures for service providers.
For more information, see www.menaranet.com.
OneRiot
OneRiot, formally Me.dium, is a social search engine that finds the pulse of the web. Like other search engines, OneRiot keeps a running record of the contents of the Internet. However, unlike other search engines, OneRiot prioritizes that information based on its current popularity with our community. This makes OneRiot’s search results relevant, fresh, friendly, and pulsing with the real-time energy of the web.
Mandalay Media
Mandalay Media is a development stage company created by leading executives from the entertainment and investment industries and co-chaired by Peter Guber and Rob Ellin. Mandalay Media will be focused on building a strategic combination of new media distribution and content assets. Twistbox Entertainment will be the foundation for Mandalay Media’s mobile and interactive offerings. Twistbox has direct on-deck distribution with over 100 mobile operators, operates in more than 40 countries and has products and services including video rich WAP sites, mobile TV and in-house developed mobile games that reach more than one billion handsets.
KickApps
KickApps, located in mid-town Manhattan provides a highly scalable, fully hosted application service for major media, content and corporate websites. Does your website KickApps?
Intune
Intune Networks is a leading supplier of optical networking technology based on tuning colours of light. This technology enables consumers to tune circuits on demand to deliver triple play services to their homes, such as HDTV, Internet, Peer-to-Peer and Voice Services.
Inform
Inform provides market leading products and technology solutions that allow publishers to automatically create editorial quality, contextual links to news, related articles, and customizable topic pages. The highly relevant links point to content on publishers own sites, in their archives, as well as anywhere else on the Web. Inform structures and organizes massive amounts of unstructured content for any media company. The Inform solution allows readers to spend more time and view more pages ultimately leading to additional revenue opportunities for the publisher.
iminlikewithyou
iminlikewithyou is a platform that enables the creation and distribution of fun, arcade style, multi-player games. iminlikewithyou syndicates it’s content across leading gaming sites and social networks, ensuring that everybody can be a little less productive everyday
EQAL
EQAL is a media company developing revolutionary new entertainment formats specifically designed for the web. The company has produced some of the most popular internet-video shows to date, including “lonelygirl15” and “Kate Modern”.
Covestor
covestor is an online service where proven self-investors can share their investment decisions, gain recognition and earn fees by helping others.
Buzzwire
Buzzwire is an innovative media services company creating new ways to make relevant media more available to consumers’ daily lives - specifically on your mobile device. The company was founded in 2006 by Andrew MacFarlane, Ed Sullivan and David Hose and backed by Spark Capital and Matrix Partners.
Bug Labs
Bug Labs is developing BUG, an open, modular, consumer electronics web services + hardware platform. Designed for the general audience, not just the technically inclined, Bug seeks to bring to the world of hardware gadgets what the Internet, open source, XML and web services have brought to the world of software and media. The company was founded in 2006 by Peter Semmelhack, the founder of Antenna Software.
Admeld
AdMeld solutions blend advertising operations and agile software development to drive advertising revenue for online publishers.
Adap.tv
Adap.tv makes the most of online video advertising. Through its flagship offering, Adap.tv OneSource, the first open and universal video ad platform, publishers can seamlessly monetize and increase the quality and success rate of online video advertising across all networks and all formats. With a single point of control, publishers can match their online video inventory from a collective sum of ad networks based on contextual analysis and past viewer behavior.
8d World
8D World is building a virtual world that connects people around the globe.
5min
5min is the leading how-to Internet video company. 5min combines its proprietary SmartPlayer video player with content aggregated from sources ranging from user generated content to professionally produced videos.
