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Tuesday, September 18, Day 2
9.00 am - 10.20 am
5th five presenting companies.
Session Topic: Productivity and Web Apps
Morning Everyone.
Hey ubertor!
Weak Cuban is not here; was the second reason I came. And number 1; indepth reviews by the panelist is not panning out. I hope today they ask the tougher questions.
What happened to Weak Cuban ?
meant, it was weak that Cuban did not show. He's "dancing with the stars" but will be here next year.
yup... dancing with the stars eh... lame
Peter, you get a lot of tokens yesterday?
I believe we did pretty well
Morning everyone. Invite your neighbours.
Sorry I'm late. Taxi stood me up, then got stuck behind a broken down bus/trolley, then I got out too early...
Sheesh
wow - xobni.com nailed it - i am impressed!
orgoo is now presenting - one of our angel investments - hope you like it
What did you like best about inbox Clay ?
Xobni looked pretty good, but until it wins I won't believe it. Last Feb at DEMO I saw about 3 of these that looked great.
Orgoo looks a little busy.
Orgoo looks super confusing to me. Not that we switch to Gmail for Business; I do not see us going back; especially with the offline version soon to be released.
What's this one? I'm lost already....
App2You
So does anyone who knows me think that if I stood up my accent (Australian) would be as strong as that guy.
Ouch - loud music - who is doing audio here???
Did that just say in the Terms and Conditions "I promise not to blog screenshots"
in regards to Orgoo... i have used it, and i think they made the demo a little complex. it really is quite simple. allows you to store and manage all your email accts/ IM accts, video chat from one inbox
disclosure: i am an angel investor in orgoo so am biased
i like Minti
Check out the terms on Mint....
i guess you need to import all your expenses and detail them though?
Yeah, Minti (www.minti.com) looks more fun than Mint (www.mint.com)
But Mint might make you make more money.
@mick... maybe you dont need to tick that one? :s
Mint was pretty tight! I think I'll try it out.
yeah - i like Mint
Yeah, Mint looks good.
Mint is a great idea... something i've toying with myself (need to get rid of those regex perl scripts to parse my statements:)
What do they say about security though? They store the login details of all your accounts?
I tried to register without ticking that box but it rejected me based on not being in beta..........
Invite only.
i think noah kagan works for mint if you are looking for an invite...
"Truly an honour and pleasure to present to you today" - oh please.....
Kerpoof - http://www.kerpoof.com
Mint looked pretty cool actually... value to effort ratio seemed really high
@peter - thing i liked about xobni (certainly not it's name!) is that it is all in a window pane so you dont need to keep flicking back and forth between inbox/calendar/contact list etc.
Wow! Kerpoof doing some slick 2D kids multimedia creation.
Mint is a good promise, maybe Teresa should use it for Codestr?
(she moved a "sun" around a scene and it transitioned from day to night. Sweet.
Kerpoof is perking up my interest
Why can't there be a moon during the day?
@mintigal = exactly what i was thinking
sorry ... kerpoof is not my thing
Hehe looks like Marty's kids will be stimulated to follow the golden steps of their dad
My boys would be right into this.
(And they'll be learning "object oriented concepts")
lol
yeah kids may love this - have to admit
we'll see Mr Clay Cook - especially when Codi can do better things on the computer than him
clay, i'd be worried if it was your thing
but it would be cool to make up a movie with our boy
kids are a massive online target these days... with clubpenguin being acquired for 200M+ (from memory)
700m
well, 350m plus a 350 earn out
cool - 700M - now i am interested
wow - Minti has a certain amount of trust with parents, so advertising or sponsorship would be cool
User interface looks pretty good.
Yeah, kids are good, but I'm moving on to pets.
yeah, clay, do it for the kids
yeah Minti (not Mint) mums/moms would love this
yeah!!! we need a gang up ping button hehe
Online apps for pets is a completely underexploited market.
YEP
My cat keeps eating his mouse though.
lol
Tamagochi - man when clay's niece got one, all I did was manage that thing
Okay ciao boys, am off to the other topics in TC40
KerPoof is done. Demo was pretty cool. Certainly think my kids would play with it (for 30 minutes till they move onto Lord of the Rings)
(not sure about the name though - domain names are getting hard to find eh)
WHAT ORGOO is better than XOBNI oh well
Guy Kawasaki said Xobni is a terrible name.
He likes KerPoof the most.
Guy "If you paid $25k for a name lab for that then if I was an investor I'd shoot you"
guy always adds homour to a panel
Guy, Guy, Guy 15 nieces and nephews does count. But 4 kids is a lot - I think Kerpoof is a hit for Guy
Guy to Esther "Any kids?"
Esther "15 nephews and neices"
Guy "That doesn't count"
Esther "And I was one"
Guy "That was a long time ago"
Mike "Yeah, I'm gonna answer another question"
I like her passion
Kerpoof co-founder
Yeah, she's good.
"Brunderbund for 21st century." - Guy on 'don't talk about the programming'.
hehe
Xobni - "um, business model, user happiness?"
Jason "h o w d o e s m o n e y g e t i n t o y o u r a c c o u n t?"
I like this South African
makes sense
Kerpoof needs to go virtual world
Hot spaces seem to be kids (duh) and financial space (cake, Mint)
thanks minti
(just kidding about my countryman roelof)
Yodelehihooo
Mike likes Salesforce wow
Revenue models are coming up next - I think that's going to be big too.
cool - Clay must check out salesforce
Force.com
SOoooo hungry
Marketing strategy is very important and needs to be clear, where you can innovate the marketing and distribution of the company
Pic from the room;
(got my good camera today)
yeah - salesforce is always doing cool things
so cheap per month
odel
hehe
Cool camera Mickster
oops - not sure what happened there...
Marketing Message by Guy Kawasaki
Control and awareness
for Mint
this group of companies has been my favorite by far
Saving money or control - Mint.
Are people who need to save money going to get on the web and use a web app.?
YEP
Thats a very good point
they may need a download client
Mint could cover both markets in their message.... control/management, and saving money
Mint has to work without work.
Oh you're sooo good Clay
now lets do that on vibe and minti
hehe
clap clap clap - well done guys
hungry clay
clap clap i LOVE TANGLER
(I'm so hungry. Someone left a muffin on the table here, do you think I can eat it?)
Google are launching Presentations.
I'm a bit of a power user of powerpoint though and I found Zoho too limited. Also, need to do lots of offline stuff?
Does Google Gears kick in to Google Docs yet so I can take them offline?
I asked the Google Gears question first Mike!
i like google presentation - for simple presentations and multiple users - will DEFINITELY use this.
agree with Jason on spreadsheets
Google's presentation app doesn't seem very interesting. Seems like this is the most sparse on features of any Google Docs app.
I seen some good reviews abt it...
most of these points could be applied to other online presentation apps, however. The only somewhat original thing Google has added is an abundance of Group interactivity.
I'll be giving it a try.... it seems to be trying to hit a spot between "talking head" and "group collaboration" .... ut I'm not sure how it will work in practice.... as I posted in the announcement thread, Information Week had an interesting comment about this concept:
"This obviously limits its use to groups of friends or non-hostile coworkers."
In my volunteer life I do a lot of interactive planning and problem solving sessions so this is where I will look to seeing if its a leap forward in tools available for this use.
