2008 UNDER THE RADAR: Social Media & Entertainment
PRESENTING COMPANIES:
33Across - Identifies influential online users
Animoto – Create personalized, professional-quality videos from images and music, offering a new alternative to traditional online photo slideshows
AudioMicro – Stock music and sound effects licensing platform
Aviary -Suite of web-based applications for people who create and a marketplace to sell that content
BigStage - Animate yourself with cutting-edge virtualization technology
Comedy.com - aggregated comedy entertainment site
CrowdSPRING – crowdsourcing of creative talent.
Curse - MMO gamer community.
Dizzywood - A virtual world that allows kids to dress up 3D avatars, play games, explore worlds and meet new friends in a safe environment
ffwd - Organized, multi-platform, video content delivered via a browser, with social network awareness, and predictive recommendations.
GumGum – A licensing and distribution platform for online content
Hollywood Interactive Group - A mass casual mmo based on reality TV concepts and Hollywood stardom.
Jacked – Browser-based “second screen” for TV viewers, which provides synchronized content and a real-time interactive experience that complements what they’re watching on TV
Jygy - Mobile social networking with SMS
Keibi - Moderation and classification of user generated content (UGC)
Kosmix – Categorization engine that crawls billions of Web pages in a unique manner to create algo-generated home pages
Lil’Grams – Tracking your babies memories in real time.
Loomia – Social recommendations bridging established social networking sites with media websites
Loud3r – Aggregating and publishing semantically searched content
MediaForge - We’ve got widgets comin’ out our ads
Mochi Media – Provides independent game developers with analytics, distribution, tools and monetization while providing advertisers with turnkey opportunities to reach the one in three Internet users who play online games.
MovieSet - Platform that brings behind-the-scenes filmmaking online, giving fans authentic access through its proprietary toolkit for Producers.
Mytopia -Social gaming community for Web, Mobile, Smartphone and TV
Nesting - Organizing family activities; scheduling, networking and more
Overlay.tv - video commerce platform that overlays contextual information directly onto online video content
Pikum! – A new kind of betting game
PluggedIn – Enjoy stunning, broadcast-quality music videos from your browser
PutPlace – Media storage all the way from Ireland
Shift Control Media – Shift Control Media is a branded entertainment company, specializing in the creation of original Brandworthy Games, as well as the development of game and emerging media strategy
SocialMedia Networks - enables developers of social media applications to monetize their traffic
Sometrics – Social Analytics and Social Ad Platform
Verismo Networks – High quality video over broadband without a pc.
Vivaty – Brings together your friends, photos and videos into a personal virtual scene, in your browser
Vusion - HD Quality Video over the internet
Wetpaint – Wiki powered websites
Xumii - Take all your contacts from your social networks with you – on your phone!
JUDGES:
Jack Kennedy, EVP Strategy & Corporate Development, Fox Interactive
Bradley Horowitz, VP Product Management, Google
Dan Schiappa, GM – Strategy & Business Development – Entertainment & Devices, Microsoft
Joshua Newman, Director – Digital Media, Twentieth Century Fox
Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal/All things D
Charlene Li, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Dave McClure, Startup Advisor & Angel Investor, 500 Hats
Lewis Henderson, SVP, William Morris Agency
Peter Chane, Group Business Product Manager – Open Social, Google
Scott Sangster, Director of Strategic Planning and Development, Walt Disney Internet Group
Jason Oberfest, VP of Business Development, MySpace
Marty O’Keefe, Director – Business Strategy & Development – Entertainment & Devices, Microsoft
Rob Hayes, Partner, First Round Capital
Robert Scoble, Editor, Scobleizer
Chad Kinzelberg, Partner, Scale Venture Partners
Rick Bolander, Partner, Gabriel Venture Partners
Vineet Buch, Partner, BlueRun Venures
Rick Witham, Channel and VC Relations – Forum Nokia, Nokia
Peter Molettiere, Senior Mobile Games Operations Manager, Nokia
Shankar Iyer, Vice President – WebEx Connect Ecosystem, WebEx
MODERATORS:
Ellen McGirt, Senior Writer, Fast Company
Rafe Needleman, Editor, CNET/Webware
Jeremy Toeman, Marketing Consultant, Stage Two Consulting
