Demo 2007Â is over now, here are some interesting picks (be sure to checkout the vids!):
The eJamming web site and desktop software allows musicians to play in sync over the internet. The intricacies of channeling music, let alone synchronizing it, over the web are well known. eJamming’s secret sauce allows musicians across the globe to connect and seamlessly play together as if they were in the same rehearsal room. eJamming seems to be a great addition to our virtually connected lives. If we can work from home, why not jam from home as well?
Less than 1% of the movies made in the world are available to the US public. Jaman is about to change that by delivering these movies straight to Windows and Mac Desktops with innovative, better-than-DVD quality software. On top of getting us these unique movies, Jaman software creates instant social networks by placing an interactive control bar to the right of the movie window. The controls allow you to turn on commentary from the other users, and rate or review the movie. Interacting with other users while watching a movie could be distracting, but Jaman seems to nail down the problem with the great user interface.
Social networking has gone vertical in recent times and this app is an interesting twist. MyDesignIn allows users to collect home design ideas and artifacts online using browser buttons. The users then can apply collected information and images to the blueprints of their house and get design advice from their friends and family. The site needs to grow and evolve more, but the concept seems interesting and getting help with home design is useful.
Just when we thought there is nothing left to do in the online photo and media sharing market, Our Story proves us wrong. They take the simple idea that media exists in time, and come up with an end-to-end photo organizer, storage and sharing experience. The photos are organized around events and timelines, and they can be shared and contributed to by multiple users via site or email. They’ve got printing of albums built in too. Flickr has certainly brought us the social photo revolution, but it is up to the companies like Our Story to iterate and refine the vision around one of the most basic usages of photo - recording the events of our lives.
Total Immersion’s software enables the real-time integration of interactive 3D graphics into live video flows. In is quite impressive and certainly is the most fun DEMO video that I watched. The effects of embedding colorful 3D graphics into real-time video are quite stunning, and Total Immersion appears to completely master this field. Applications range from media/entertainment to toys. My description does not do this technology justice, you have to see it!
User-Generated Video (UGV) is fueling a dramatic growth in video views and video uploads on the Internet. Magnify.net empowers online publishers to integrate UGV into their existing Web offerings. Each site can create a UGV channel that harnesses the talents of its existing enthusiasts/visitors within verticals, to generate better content, more relevant viewing and new opportunities for targeted rich-media ads.
VUVOX is an easy-to-use, online and mobile media-creation service that enables consumers to capture, produce and instantly share their life experiences. VUVOX pulls in personal media from an online site, PC or camera phone and automatically streamlines production using contextual story suggestions. Customers can instantly preview and personalize their media within professional-quality interactive environments that are instantly shared with friends and family across social networking, media hosting, or personal blog sites.
Eyejot is the first comprehensive, client-free video-messaging platform ideal for both personal and business communications. Eyejot offers everyone the ability to create and receive video messages in a self-contained, spam-free environment. With no client to install, consumers can start using Eyejot immediately with any browser, on any platform. It even features built-in support for iTunesâ„¢ (and iPodsâ„¢), mobile devices and social networks like MySpaceâ„¢.
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