Session 2: Memes & News
Presenting Companies
DotSpots
DotSpots brings the power of Wikipedia - the wisdom of crowds - to every meme (block of text) on the web, and leverages automatic semantic matching to distribute each contribution to every instance of that meme across the web. The first release of the DotSpots will focus on improving online news (mainstream media, blogosphere and citizen journalists), by identifying and indexing semantically similar content across millions of news sites and blogs, while empowering bloggers and individuals to annotate text on their local favorite sites with comments, videos and photos. Each local contribution is then instantly distributed globally and filtered by a user voting system that ensures everyone benefits from the best thoughts of those with something to contribute. In this way bloggers will be able to reach a more mainstream audience, while mainstream media benefits from having the insightful perspective of bloggers available, in context, on each of their articles. |
Ångströ
Angstro delivers critical business news about people and companies across professional networks. By leveraging existing services such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, Angstro helps users to easily discover and share news about colleagues and clients. Unlike clipping services that confuse different people with the same name, Angstro both disambiguates names and analyzes social graphs to prioritize those relationships that matter most. Founded in 2007 by serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience developing real-time notification solutions, Angstro is located in Palo Alto, California. |
LiveHit
LiveHit is a revolutionary new Social Discovery Service showcasing who and what’s hot in the moment across the social web – it’s Your Live Personalized Social Navigation Engine - Your Custom GPS System to discover contextually relevant rich media content and people. LiveHit’s comprehensive Social Discovery Platform provides a new extension to social search and discovery by using user-powered navigation paths to surface what’s being viewed live in the moment it’s happening. The platform collects valuable cross-network data and uses velocity-based tracking and dynamic-predictive modeling to gauge the propensity of something to become hot. This allows partners to program their sites and target ads in real-time. LiveHit is an aggregation hub connecting publishers, content providers, ad-networks, and distributers around social discovery and data. The end result is a mission-critical Social Discovery System that drives distribution, engagement, and monetization to partners while providing a core discovery service for end-users. |
Quant the News
Quant the News LLC, (QTN) was formed to develop and deploy advanced textual sentiment analysis applications that leverage its unique, AI-based natural language processing and data mining technology. QTN's first product offering is "StockMood.com," a website that analyzes news stories about stocks, identifying their sentiment, and then measuring their potential impact on a stock's price direction. StockMood measures a stock's moving sentiment as news flows, and also assesses the "mood" of a stock, a gauge of how a stock's price responds to news. |
Expert Panelists
 Ron Conway |  Chris DeWolfe |  Chad Hurley |  Marissa Mayer |
