Session 8: Language & Communication Tools
Video
Presenting Companies
Alfabetic
Alfabetic is positioned to be the world's first Cross-Lingual Ad Network, allowing publishers to monetize their content across the language barrier. Alfabetic offers web content publishers a turnkey solution to translate, localize, distribute and monetize globally. All a publisher need supply is an RSS feed of their content, and Alfabetic builds a new target language version at no cost to the publisher with geo targeted advertising. Alfabetic is a profit center for publishers as revenue from this newly found audience flows back to the publisher. Alfabetic can translate and re-publish large amounts of content economically due to a proprietary publishing platform. At its core is an automated translation technology, developed in collaboration with some of the world’s leading experts in the field. We assure professional grade translation thanks to our human review quality assurance process that in turn continually improves our domain specific translation technology. Tapping into the multi-billion dollar opportunity of the international audience, Alfabetic will function as a revenue multiplier for the world's leading publishers. |
Postbox
A new desktop email application, Postbox™ helps users spend less time managing email and more time using email to get things done. Powered by the Mozilla platform, Postbox automatically detects, analyzes and catalogs all types of content, letting users seamlessly find, organize and act upon text, images, URLs, addresses and more hidden deep within their mail store. Since found data is displayed in context it can be easily repurposed in new messages or web searches, or even shared online—all from within Postbox. Simple tagging features let users organize messages the way they want and then focus on one project at a time without missing out on important new messages. Users can also gather messages by conversation, annotate messages and create to-do items that appear in mailbox windows. Postbox, Inc. was founded by Sherman Dickman and Scott MacGregor in December of 2007, and is based in San Francisco, California. |
Swype
Swype creates text input technology for screens. The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and "swype" motions for both stylus and finger based input. In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more. Seattle based Swype Inc. was founded by Cliff Kushler and Randy Marsden in 2003. Cliff is the co-inventor of T9, the standard predictive text-entry solution used on almost 3 billion mobile phones worldwide. Randy is the developer of the onscreen keyboard included in Windows, with an installed base of over 500 million units. |
DropBox
Dropbox is the easiest way to store and share files in the cloud, combining online sync, sharing and backup into a single interface that’s seamlessly integrated into your operating system. It’s the only truly cross-platform cloud storage solution, with support for Windows, Mac OS X and now Linux. Files in your Dropbox folder are continuously kept in sync between your computers and securely backed up online, eliminating the headaches associated with emailing yourself attachments or carrying USB drives. Folders in your Dropbox can also be shared with others, leading many businesses to abandon traditional network drives and VPNs and collaborate using Dropbox shared folders instead. Our beta users love that Dropbox just works and doesn’t make you think, and our March screencast ranks among the top links of the year on Digg (11,000+ diggs.) Dropbox is backed by Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator and was founded by a team of MIT engineers. |
Expert Panelists
 Josh Kopelman |  Om Malik |  Tim O'Reilly |  Evan Williams |
