Web Innovators Group Wrapup
Last night I went to the Web Innovators Group at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. Hundreds of entrepreneurs, journalists, and tech people were in attendance for this, the fifteenth gathering.
The meeting is split into two sections: "Side Dish Presentations" and "Main Dish Presentations." Each side dish presenter gets 60 seconds, while main dish presenters get 6 minutes.
Below is the list of presenters and a description from either the one-pager given out at the event, or from the company’s web site. Some of these services are not yet open to the public, but I plan to spend time testing out the ones that are.
Side Dish Presentations:
The Story:
Untravel Media was founded in 2006 in Cambridge, MA with the aim of developing immersive travel narratives on mobile devices. The company’s founders have a distinct vision of mobile storytelling that combines real world exploration with portable audio, video, and interactive content.
The Story:
MixBoston is the beta launch for Mix&Meet, Inc., an innovative social networking company whose vision is to promote a simple, quick, and spontaneous way to meet new people and bring them together in-person. In other words, to open up the other half of social networking – the real world half. Our goal is to give our members the same level of control over their real world social networking as they now enjoy online.
The Story:
Your Personalized Page at Facebook.com
- Read Blogs, News in the RSS Reader
- Quickly Search Web & Maps on Google
- Access your POP mail account
- Watch YouTube…videos inside news feeds
- And best of all – Customize your page!
The Story:
Reduce global warming by taking quick & easy challenges.
Compete with others in your area and around the world.
The Story:
The Student Concourse is a web based student organizer that you can access from any computer.
The Story:
360 degree virtual tours of products and locations
Main Dishes
The Story:
iiProperty is an incredibly easy to use service for people who self-manage their properties. iiProperty is perfect for people with investment property, property managers, builders and realtors. Your data is always in one secure location you can access from anywhere. No more digging for tenant information or rent history. Send professional tenant notices and invoices without leaving your desk. Manage multiple listings!
The Story:
A reputation service designed for the vacation home rental market. FlipKey offers a trusted resource to verify the reputation of the property manager and quality of the accommodation provided.
The Story:
For many of us, setting up a neighborhood lemonade stand was our introduction to entrepreneurship. It taught us life lessons in responsibility, self-reliance and hard work. In a similar way, lemonade inc. enables people to combine commerce and community in the digital neighborhood of their personal online space. Cost-free and easy to use, this is the next generation of the old-fashioned Lemonade Stand concept.
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