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Cittio growing fast as network devices proliferate, but big rivals loom

by John Shinal, November 8, 2007 | Comments

153 The explosion in the number of devices connected to the edge of corporate computer networks has fueled fast growth for Cittio, whose software automates the monitoring and management of enterprise systems. While the company's product, called WatchTower, used to primarily monitor servers and routers inside corporate data centers, it now keeps track of kiosks, point-of-sale machines, wireless access points and hand held devices that are part of nearly all enterprise data systems. "The challenge for IT departments to monitor (their ...
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The constantly stable death industry - 1:1 Interview with Respectance Co-founder and CMO Richard Derks

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 6, 2007 | Comments

108 Respectance is a site where users can create personalized tributes and share their memories of deceased friends and family members. Richard Derks, co-founder and CMO of the site, shares the story behind the company. Richard talks about the usage of the site, the ‘death and sympathy industry' market size, the business model of the site and the partnerships the company is developing. Richard also addresses how the Respectance team is working to improve the virality of the site, general metrics ...
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ThinkEquity Partners CEO Michael Moe on the hot tech investing trends

by John Shinal, November 6, 2007 | Comments

144 During the late 1990s, San Francisco's Financial District was the center of tech investment banking, with boutique investment banks based in the city executing IPOs for many technology companies that later became household names. But at the end of the decade, storied firms like Robertson Stephens, Hambrecht & Quist and Montgomery Securities were acquired by big New York firms. Sensing an opportunity, Michael Moe, former head of research at Montgomery and later at Merrill Lynch, founded ThinkEquity Partners in 2001.  Launching ...
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411Sync CEO Anurag Nigam on the "community portal approach" to mobile apps

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 5, 2007 | Comments

143 It won't be impossible, but nor will it be easy for startups that want to build mobile platforms and services to differentiate themselves, given how many are out there. And let's not forget about incumbents like Google and Yahoo. 411Sync founder Anurag Nigam explains how his company lets mobile Web users create categories of content, based on keywords, that they want downloaded onto their handsets. Those categories are based on popular keywords, such as "sports scores," Nigam says. Users can ...
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Genius.com's David Thompson on why Web 2.0 is about more than consumers

by John Shinal, November 2, 2007 | Comments

141 So far, most of the focus of Web 2.0 has been on consumers and user-generated content. But given the successful IPO executed earlier this month by Web analytics firm Constant Contact, investors are ready to reward companies who use Web data to help businesses. David Thompson, CEO of Genius.com, says large companies are looking for ways to take data on Web users and apply it to their sales tracking processes. One of the company's largest clients is Cisco, whose inside sales ...
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Fliqz CEO Benjamin Wayne on supplying video solutions to smaller businesses

by John Shinal, November 1, 2007 | Comments

137 While Video Egg and Brightcove have gained a lot of traction providing online video solutions to the sites of large companies, Fliqz CEO and founder Benjamin Wayne says there's room for his company in the smaller end of the market. Fliqz's platform is a toolbar that extends the capability of the Internet Explorer browser to support different types of video technologies, including Flash and streaming video. It provides companies with a solution they can customize to fit their user base, ...
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MeeVee expanding beyond a personalized guide to delivering video content

by John Shinal, October 30, 2007 | Comments

135 Given how many places consumers can watch video on the Web -- everywhere from YouTube to Veoh Networks and, now, Hulu -- startups in this market need to work hard to differentiate themselves. MeeVee.com, which was originally conceived as a sort of TV Guide for online video, has been expanding beyond just helping consumers find what they want to watch on the Web and now has ways of delivering it to them.  The Silicon Valley startup has just raised another funding round and has now raised $16 ...
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The growing trend towards web services - 1:1 interview with Roberto Medrano, SOA Software

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, October 23, 2007 | Comments

128 Roberto Medrano, Executive VP of SOA Software, talks about the service oriented architecture (SOA) space and how his company has become one of the most successful players in the field. Roberto explains how web services work and how more and more applications become web services. Roberto also talks about the competitive landscape and partnerships with large players in the software business, like HP, IBM, Oracle and Tibco, that have all started to embrace service oriented architecture for the enterprise market. Finally, Roberto ...
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Mining the wisdom of the crowds through widgets - 1:1 Interview with Minekey CEO & Founder Delip Andra

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, October 21, 2007 | Comments

124 In this interview, Delip Andra, CEO and Founder of the Minekey, talks about how Minekey's content discovery service helps online publishers, marketers and retailers increase their revenue and improve user experience by serving relevant information to their target audience. Delip elaborates on how the Minekey recommendations widget works leveraging the wisdom of the crowds and the individual user's behavior to deliver the most relevant information. Delip also addresses how Minekey is different from other services helping Internet users discover contextually relevant ...
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1:1 Interview with Topix CEO and Founder Chris Tolles

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, October 17, 2007 | Comments (1)

121 Topix is online news community that aims to connect people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. town and city. Chris Tolles, founder and CEO of the company, talks about the evolution of the rapidly growing site and the kinds of news and commentary that are popular on Topix. Chris also addresses the number of page views and demographics of Topix contributors and readers. Finally, Chris elaborates on the Google Adsense driven business model, advertisers' ...
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Citigroup's Mark Mahaney on what's next for the Internet giants

by John Shinal, October 15, 2007 | Comments (4)

116 What's on the horizon for the Internet giants? Mark Mahaney, Citigroup's director of Internet equity research, tells Vator.tv's Bambi Francisco what to expect from Google, Yahoo, eBay and Amazon.com for third-quarter earnings and beyond.   Google has two strategic initiatives -- YouTube and mobile Internet advertising -- that could help push its stock to new highs, although that's not likely in the wake of its earnings report this week given its recent run-up, Mahaney says.   He sees YouTube contributing between $100 ...
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Vino Veritas applies clean technology to the wine industry

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, October 10, 2007 | Comments (2)

109 Over three billion bottles of wine were sold in the U.S. last year, up 18% from the prior year. That's a lot of wine to be stored. The numbers underscore the growing popularity of collecting wines. The self-storage market is estimated to be a $22.6 billion industry. Climate-controlled storage is estimated to make up a sliver of the 1.6 billion square feet of storage on the market, which is estimated to grow by 26% over the next three to five ...
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1:1 Interview with Baynote CEO Jack Jia

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, October 7, 2007 | Comments

105 Jack Jia, CEO and founder of Baynote, talks about how his company's on-demand recommendation technology works to automatically display the best content and products on Baynote's customers' websites. Jack explains how the Baynote recommendation engine taps into the wisdom of crowds to provide recommendations aimed at increasing the number of products purchased, site impressions and/or the number of leads. Jack also talks about Baynote's business model and the rapid growth of his company. To see Jack's pitch for Baynote, click ...
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Pixsy signs partnership with Veoh Networks as video-search market heats up

by John Shinal, October 4, 2007 | Comments (2)

102 Pixsy Corp., the upstart video and image search company that's taking on larger rivals such as Blinkx and Truveo, said today that online video-sharing channel Veoh Networks will start using its technology in return for an undisclosed sum. With the deal, which is exclusive on the image-search side but not on the video-search side, Pixsy adds Veoh to its list of paying customers, which also includes Travelocity, Pixsy CEO Chase Norlin told Vator.tv in a phone interview. The video search market got a high-profile ...
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