Web 2.0 Conference: Launchpad

Socialtext

• Socialtext is the first wiki company
• Make wikis for enterprises
• 200+ customers
• Built for collaboration, unlike email
• Wiki came from open source - Wikipedia, etc
• Socialtext going open open source
• Starting with rich text editor for wikis, being used for other applications people are developing
• Next is real-time collaborative editing of documents on thee web
• Web 2.0 is made of people (cheers)

Rollyo

• Been blogging and investing for 8 years
• Search engine that lets people organize their searches by source
• Find search engines created by others
• Can also search the whole web
• Engine powered by Yahoo
• Allows people with domain expertise to create custom searches and get credit

Joyent

• Mail, calendar, contacts, files, binders
• Tagging, smart filters
• XML-RPC, RSS, ICS, vCard, vCal, WebDAV support
• Shared calendars

Bunchball

• Doing things with people you know
• Social applications currently don't match what people do in the real world, there are gaps
• Replication of social network each time a new one launches
• Social infrastructure for developers
• Many applications and one social network for users

Realtravel

• Travel information site that combines user-written blogs and social networking
• Internet primary channel for travel
• Focus on price is commoditizing travel
• Google maps integration

Zimbra

• Open source collaboration suite
• Support standards
• Compatible with legacy systems
• Mobil: Blackberry, Windows Mobile, etc
• Allows for developers to integrate with third party applications
• Crowd very impressed with integration between applications, third party applications
• Good use of AJAX
• Easy to find information inside the system
• Conversation grouping like Gmail
• Big applause

Zvents

• Local event search and web service
• Running in Bay Area right now
• Has 3x the events for that area of anyone else
• What-where-when search
• Search results as list, map & calendar
• Makes it easy for bloggers to post calendars of events on their blogs

KnowNow

• RSS notification service
• Hosted service for enterprises
• Open, anonymous access
• Internet Explorer browser plugin

Orb

• Desktop computer software, windows only right now
• Streams your media from home to anywhere you want
• Used it to control lights in someone's home, watching from live streaming webcam
• Access filesystem on home computer from anywhere

Wink

• Aggregate tags from across the web, analyze and rank relevance for search results
• Users can create personal search sets

AllPeers

• Development platform built on Firefox
• Metadata via tags, ad hoc protocols like XML, decentralization of data and asynchronousness
• Adding extensible profiles, peer-to-peer data transfer, data storage and resource replication
• AllPeers MediaCentre allows import, tagging, organization, sharing of data + media files into Firefox
• Web Page Sharing allows annotation, with sharing, of web pages
• Third party apps coming soon

Flock

• Building tools to help people do the things they do already, better and faster
• Dozen folks in a garage in Palo Alto
• Built on open source - Firefox browser
• Alpha release coming in a few weeks, beta in a few months
• Focusing right now on favorites and history, integrating blogging features
• Making subscribing to feeds, favorites the same
• Reading RSS in the browser
• Blogging topbar - new interface element
• Blog editor with rich text editing
• Flickr topbar browser in blog editor

PubSub

• Structured blogging - structuring blog posts so that machines can read and aggregate similar content (ex. movie reviews)