After leaving a conference my adrenalin is always very high.
I’ve taken in so many new ideas in a short period of time that I feel like I’m
suffering from information sickness (coined by Don DeLillo in “White
Noise”). And yet I am not anxious to see
it soon part. I’m eager to incorporate all the data and make sense of it as
fast as I can.
So was the case this past week in San Francisco as a fairly broad community gathered for Web 2.0 Expo. Here’s how I’m making sense of it all in 3 parts.
Part 3 – Companies that are doing interesting things.
In keeping with the purpose for starting this blog, here are
some Web 2.0 companies to watch (I have no affiliation with any of these
companies).
- Sprout (www.sproutbuilder.com)
does for Flash what Front Page did for HTML, only better. It brings Flash development
to the masses.
- Beeweeb (http://www.beeweeb.com/mwt/)
is a Rome-based engineering and design company that builds mobile applications
for large mobile carriers. I’d say they
are akin to Ideo but with a very heavy coding pedigree. I shared a lunch table with their president
and was amazed with the kinds of things they have already built for mobile
phones: mapping, video and music players.
- Blist (www.blist.com)
promised to bring databases to the masses. Their UI is very slick.
- LiveMesh (www.mesh.com/web20)
from Microsoft connects all of your devices (not mobile yet) together so you
can easily get at our files. Many people have tried to solve this problem such
as WebOS and Groove which is now part of Microsoft. LiveMesh is clearly leveraging features from
it. They have not yet made it possible
to run applications from any of the devices – that would be a killer feature.
- BigString (www.bigstring.com)
offers self-destructing email, instant messaging and chat rooms. From what I can tell, they do this by
converting text to an image which can then be deleted off the server.
- SpringNote (http://springnote.com/en) comes from Korea. If it was my call I’d position this product to go after the technical documentation market. Take a look and you’ll see why.
Comments