DEMO Alumni Continue to Innovate and Receive Industry Accolades

A Round Up of April's DEMO Demonstrator News

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., May 6 -- Over the past 17 years more than 2000 companies have launched at DEMO conferences which are known as a prestigious launch pad to introduce new and cutting-edge technology. In April many of the DEMO alumni around the world continued to innovate with expanded product offerings, partnerships and critical business milestones. Companies interested in launching new products at the DEMO conferences can apply at http://demo.com/launch/apply.html

"DEMO showcases companies with the most provocative technologies and viable business models. Our stringent process of evaluating and selecting each DEMO participant means that each DEMO event highlights only the best technologies with the most impact as they come to market," said Chris Shipley, product analyst and executive producer of the DEMO conferences. "The fact that the DEMO alumni continue to innovate with expanded offerings, new partnerships, and are receiving industry accolades is a testament to the viability and business acumen of these companies."

  In April, many companies announced new milestones including:

  -- Aternity (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2008/124643.html) (DEMO 08)
     was named one of Gartner's "Cool Vendors in IT Operations, 2008", which
     chooses companies that represent "unique and interesting offerings in
     the IT management marketplace."  The company's Frontline Performance
     Intelligence Platform combines application, desktop and user
     performance monitoring with real-time business intelligence.

  -- CellSpin (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2008/124662.html) (DEMO 08)
     launched a new feature that lets users post audio, video, still images
     and text from mobile telephones to social networking sites like
     Facebook and MySpace for free.  CellSpin is a rich media-sharing
     application that lets users update multiple social networking sites
     with one click.

  -- Blist (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2008/124653.html) (DEMO 08)
     announced support for international characters and non-English
     languages and other new community capabilities to help expand its use
     outside the U.S. Blist is an online social database provider.

  -- Sprout, Inc. (http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2008/124754.html)
     (DEMO 08) introduced a software development kit (SDK) and version 1.5
     of its free, beta SproutBuilder software that expands the capabilities
     of its widgets and banners to place telephone calls, show video blogs,
     collect data, survey audiences, and display messages.

  -- StackSafe, Inc. (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2008/124757.html)
     (DEMO 08) a provider of pre-production staging and testing solutions
     for IT operations teams, named a "Cool vendor in IT operations" by
     Gartner in a 2008 report on innovative solutions.

  -- ClipBlast! (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007fall/112971.html)
     (DEMOfall 07) this week announced it is indexing video content from The
     Hill, a leading political newspaper. The company will index all current
     and future content from The Hill's video channel (HillTube), including
     streaming videos from the site's Leading the News, Opinion and Capital
     Living features.

  -- Dimdim (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007fall/112979.html)
     (DEMOfall 07) announced it is opening its free service to the public.
     The service allows anyone to create and host a Web meeting, and share
     their desktop, show documents and slides, collaborate via whiteboard,
     as well as talk via Internet audio through any Web browser (no
     additional downloads required by attendees).

  -- Livemocha (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007fall/113013.html)
     (DEMOfall 07) the language learning social network, added new courses
     for Russian, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese bringing its total to 10
     languages. The company said membership has reached 400,000 in more than
     200 countries since its launch last September.  The company also
     launched the "Livemocha Language Poke" application for Facebook, which
     allows users to send messages in German, French, Spanish, Hindi, or
     Mandarin Chinese.

  -- Matchmine (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007fall/113017.html)
     (DEMOfall 07) announced that the first two partners in its MatchKey
     Partner Network, Fuzz.com and FilmCrave.com have gone live with its
     Matchmine Media Discovery Platform. The company also announced four new
     members of the Matchmine Partner Network, Odeo, Blogdigger, Blogged and
     MediaMelon, as well as a new partnership with IODA, a digital
     distribution company for the global independent music community.

  -- Tungle (http://demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007fall/113070.html)
     (DEMOfall 07) a Montreal-based scheduling service company, has launched
     a free beta that lets Microsoft Outlook users easily coordinate
     meetings with uses of iCal, Google Calendar, and Lotus Notes.  Tungle
     is breaking into the $2 billion groupware market (IDC) with a
     full-featured solution for the 550 million Microsoft Outlook users.

Note to editors: This is one in a series of news alerts informing media of the ongoing successes of DEMO companies. News alerts will be issued every four to six weeks.

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