Live Coverage: DEMO Session III – Words, Pictures and Music

Below is our live coverage of the Monday morning startup presentations at the DEMO conference in San Diego. Keep refreshing this page to view the newest coverage – we will note once the coverage has concluded. And check our main DEMO and TechCrunch50 conference section for our video event coverage as well.

UGA Digital

– allows you to share photos instantly
– no more sd cards, no more emails
– they make photo frames
– yougotphoto.com – basically you pick your source and send it to a frame
– they don’t host any photos
– they don’t believe that people should have to upload photos yet again to use a frame
– can deliver one photo to millions of frames
– actually useful bit of technology
– two way communication back to the yougotphoto web site from the frame

Trinity Convergence

– build software for OEM who build connected devices
– launching "gloop"
– gloop simplifies photo sharing using P2P technology
– this doesn’t seem as exciting as yougotphoto above

Blue Lava Technologies

– free photosharing product, ilovephotos
– go read my review for all the details

Kadoo

– manage all your stuff online
– gives 10 gigs of free space
– everything you upload can then be used by the other Kadoo applications
– kadoo isn’t a walled garden but it isn’t wide open either
– selective sharing is the power of kadoo

MixMatchMusic

– collaborate on, share and profit on indie music
– help you find the right parts to create a complete and sellable song
– basically put songs together and then publish it
– when a song gets sold, the music creators (all of the beat creators) share in 85 cents on every dollar

Photrade

– democrotizing photography
– helps to protect photographers photos
– basically a service to sell photos
– presenter uses the example of blocking "techcrunch" – ha
– allows photographers to share photos using ads and the photographers share in the revenue
– "think adsense for images"
– reminds me of that image service put out by fuckedcompany

EchoNest

– the first fully automated music expert
– it reads about music and it listens to music
– in a few seconds it can transcibe any song
– can post tons of data about any artist
– can grab a rss feed to post the data on your site
– demo’s an imeem app that can build a radio station based on an artist you like