TechCrunch40: Productivity and Web Applications

Here are my live notes from the Session 5 - Productivity and Web Applications. This post will be considered live until I note it has concluded.

Xobni

• A new look at your email - effortless integration of your email
• Helps you to expose a hidden social network
• Best way to find an important email
• Fastest way to find an attachment
• seems pretty interesting - i guess it looks like gmail threading but it does it over time
• ties into calendar
• pretty cute presentation
• available for microsoft outlook now
• wrap-up - view threaded conversations, find attachments, use a social network from your email and search email and people

Orgoo

• Merges emails from anywhere into one place
• They call it a cockpit for inbox
• Orgoo lets you record a video message
• Not a packaged demo - nice!
• Integrates all buddy lists into one from all services
• Opens in tabs
• You can create a chat room with participants from multiple networks and embed as well
• Search chat, im, and email all together in one search
• Very impressive I must say

App2You

• Build a web app with no knowledge for anyone who has the knowledge level of knowing excel
• Ok, this looks WAY more complicated than they sold it as

Mint

• you spend your life working for your money but do you know where your money goes?
• completely free
• completely anonymous
• another one who wants my ((*%)@%) bank account info - who the f are they for me to trust them - trust is earned my friend
• updated daily
• 4 patents they filed for
• all your transactions from all sources in one place
• claims that they are the first to show you spam offers to save you money - geezeo does this now i believe
• mint is so easy to use you will actually use it - from the founder

I am sorry but I couldn't catch up to review Kerpoof. It's a cute kids tool. Would be better if it was educational.

Expert Panel Discussion

Esther - before I would fund anything, I would want to know more about their track records. Based on what I saw it would be Xobni. She is an investor in Wesabe but she would use Mint.

Guy - I would absolutely meet with Kerpoof. Xobni is a horrible name.

Roelof - Three of them stand out in my mind. Very impressed with Mint as they execute incredibly well. Impressed with Xobni - I worry about their need for a client.

Mike - I like everyone of these except xobni cuz im a mac guy. Mint did a good job with guerilla marketing.

What are your business models:

Mint - lead generation

Kerpoof - subscriber fees

Xobni - vertical solutions

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