Session 7: Rich Media & Mash Ups

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Presenting Companies

XTR3D (Extreme Reality)

XTR3D (Extreme Reality)

XTR3D develops software that lets users interact with computers and gaming consoles using 3D human motions. Their real-time software analyzes 3D human motions using only one simple web cam. It will allow users to play games and interact in virtual worlds using natural human motions instead of keyboards, mouses and joysticks. They refer to their technology as a "3D Human Machine Interface." Currently, XTR3D's software also runs on mobile devices and may be ported to any embedded platform.

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BroadClip

BroadClip

BroadClip's MediaCatcher for Facebook offers a way to search and listen to DRM-free music. Unlike other music discovery services, MediaCatcher is optimized to deliver music to portable media players such as iPods and cell phones. All users have to do is "clip" streaming music and they can transfer the recording to their portable media player in a legal way similar to other "time-shifting" technologies like TiVo, VCRs and tape recorders.

BroadClip's MediaCatcher is a new type of "search and aggregation" tool for real-time streams. Their patent-pending technology MobSearch enables instantaneous searches on thousands of real-time streams. Like Google's Adwords, MediaCatcher integrates targeted advertising into its music search results, opening an entirely new market for targeted radio advertising on portable media devices. By sharing its ad revenues with the broadcasters that provide the content, BroadClip has created a new business model that will help save Internet radio.

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mEgo

mEgo
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA
  • Funding: Angel Rounds, Undisclosed Amounts
  • CEO: Julia Johnston and Ariel McNichol
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Los Angeles-based mEgo lets users create personalized avatars that carry their online profiles and can be integrated into users' blogs, social networks, websites, and IM clients. The online profiles display user-picked content like profile details, videos, photos, feeds, and widgets. When you update your profile on mEgo it updates your avatar profile on all your online properties. This will allow people to have one consistent, updated profile as they join, enhance and migrate from social network to social network.

mEgo founder Arial McNichol previously created popular software, games, and mobile products for Yahoo!, AOL, Lucas Arts and Disney, and her co-founder Julia Johnston was a "lawyer and highly accomplished business strategist in the technology, media and telecommunication industries." Ariel started working on prototypes for creating, managing and updating online profiles back in 1999. Their new online profile avatar mEgo's revenue model consists of a blend of advertising, sponsorship, referral revenue and ecommerce. In addition, mEgo will offer users the chance to allocate a portion of advertising revenue generated by their mEgos to a non-profit cause of their choice. The company's growth will come from viral marketing and promotion and distribution deals with social networks and other sites.

Future plans include adding the following features: expanded widget support, enhanced visuals, non-avatar profile for professional networking, browser sidebar profile and a mobile mEgo.

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Wixi

Wixi

"Wixi is a media social network where users interact with each other by privately watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including photos, audio, and video. The site offers a unique interface, where media can be managed in the same way files are organized on a computer desktop creating a true "drag and drop" and "click and play" experience. Uploaded files automatically convert to be played in high definition with one universal flash player, that can be privately used or shared with friends, fellow Wixi members, through email, IM mobile phones, or embedded on blog or websites."

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BeFunky

BeFunky

BeFunky provides users with online tools for creating digital online representations of themselves for use on their blogs, websites, and social networks like MySpace. Their online tools Uvatar and Cartoonizer makes it ridiculously easy for you to turn yourself into an avatar, cartoon, digital painting or comic. All you have to do is upload an image or picture and start warping, sketching, coloring, dressing and customizing your digital self.

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