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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- DEMOfall 09 concluded today with 24 companies giving 6-minute live presentations; six AlphaPitch companies giving 90-second product previews; DEMO's long-standing Executive Producer, Chris Shipley, closing what will be her final conference by honoring 16 legendary alumni with Lifetime Achievement Awards; and Co-Executive Producer, Matt Marshall, presenting alongside Chris Shipley this year's DEMOgod awards and the special IDG Million Dollar Media Prize to the two selected demonstrator recipients of the People's Choice Award. The conference was also exclusively broadcast live on the Web through BitGravity's BG Live(TM) video stream in 85 countries worldwide.

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"DEMO continues to be an amazing showcase of innovation. It is an honor to recognize 16 entrepreneurs for their past achievements and a privilege to have played a part in the launch of 56 great products this week," said Chris Shipley, Executive Producer of the DEMO Conferences. "DEMO is a very special platform and community and it's been my great pleasure and privilege to lead DEMO for the last 13 years. I look forward to watching Matt build on this platform and take it to new heights."

Highlights from today's technology introductions include:

Technologies for Working Smarter:

• Answers.com - a one-stop shop that harnesses over 250 reference sources and a wiki database to provide users with the world's best licensed and user-generated content for fast-fact lookup as well as deep research.
• Weels Corp.'s Web on Weels - a tool that enhances the browsing experience using hosted software that features a seamless drag-and-drop interface, allowing users to share any aspect of a page -- images, videos, navigation bars -- with friends and colleagues.
• Article One Partners, LLC's AOP Patent Studies - a technology that uses open innovation to research patent validity, adding a crucial level of review to the U.S. patent system that can strengthen legitimate patents and reduce unjust patent monopolies.
• Kryon Systems, Ltd.'s Leo - the next generation of help tools for Windows, with the ability to perform the needed action for the user in a step-by-step, interactive manner in real time.
• LeapFILE, Inc.'s LeapFILE Folder - a provider of on demand managed file transfer that eliminates the cumbersome steps of uploading and downloading files from Web portals and enables instantaneous and unfettered collaboration between people.
• Symform, Inc.'s Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud -a solution that effectively redistributes the cloud to enable managed service providers to offer virtual cloud services to their small enterprise customers with the same security, reliability, and cost-benefits of large data storage technology.
• Anaplan, Inc. - an on-demand business suite and revolutionary "snap-plug-and-play" architecture that automatically connects applications and transforms the way companies large and small plan and manage their everyday business activities.
• Liaise, Inc. - a business interaction management solution that provides revolutionary email organization capabilities by intelligently and automatically capturing KeyPoints in your messages, and providing summaries, calendar integration and reports.
• I.ndigo, LLC's Dekks - a solution that seamlessly and easily captures the informal knowledge inherent to a smarter business to help employees properly route their issues and give management insight into the pulse of the enterprise.
• Hashwork - a social business tool with the ability to integrate Google Calendar and Twitter, as well as file editing and management, to equip everyone in your company to "work socially" by connecting and sharing Twitter-style with customers, partners and others.
• Gogrok Technology Corp. - a secure, high-performance P2P platform that integrates desktop sharing and voice functionality to allow people to communicate face-to-face over the Internet to solve personal and business issues.
• Zorap, Inc. - a consumer video chat service designed to deliver quality video and audio in lower-bandwidth environments so friends can share and simultaneously experience almost any type of audio or visual media in virtual casual gathering places.
• Faculte's Broadcast Studio - a web-based multimedia communication platform designed to help organizations take their business communications to a new level by producing, distributing and managing interactive video presentations quickly and at minimal cost.
  

Next Generation APIs, Platforms, and Services

• 80legs - an on-demand service that delivers the bandwidth and computing power of over 50,000 computers, allowing anyone to crawl and analyze large amounts of Web data.
• Scientific Media, Inc.'s DOTGO - a new mobile publishing platform that makes it easy for anyone with an Internet domain name to rapidly and cheaply publish information using a variety of mobile technologies.
• VicMan Software, Inc.'s pho.to platform - a platform that enables websites of any scale to employ advanced photo editing and manipulation functionality with minimum investment.
• Zuora's Z-Commerce for Media - the first online commerce platform for media companies to manage their online and offline subscribers.
• NativeTung, LLC - an advanced language translation platform that enables websites to easily establish multi-language content channels that maximize global audience reach and engagement online.
• Digitrad Communications' OrganIP - a new consumer voice service through a Web browser that allows a person to call someone simply by using the person's name, making voice calling possible through any online community, social network, or phone.
• CallSpark!, Inc. - a mobile technology that delivers a new kind of phone call experience with real-time content from social networks, location-based search, reviews and listed public information before, during and after a call.
  

Smarter, More Social Marketing Tools

• Burt AB's Rich - an ad campaign analytics tool targeted to creative agencies that enables agencies to estimate the amount of attention consumers pay to an ad by using predictive modeling and machine learning.
• ePulze - a search engine that automatically monitors and analyzes the opinion, perception and sentiment expressed in the news, comments and reviews for various subjects and topics.
• Glam Media, Inc.'s Tinker.com - the first application that lets publishers create live topics, news and events, moderate and curate the feeds so it gives brand advertisers a trusted way to engage with users of the real-time Web by enabling search, browsing and discovering real-time conversations on social media.
• RumbaFish Technologies, Inc.'s RumbaFish Engagement Platform - an engagement platform that lets companies leverage social activity, easily create interactive online campaigns, and update those campaigns everywhere with a click in a way that is measurable.
  

AlphaPitches

• Nubli, Inc.'s EmailSmarts - a personal email assistant which helps users easily find the most important emails, managing email information overload and increasing productivity, within an easy to use dashboard with status of all messaging related actionable items.
• Traffic Talk, LLC - a free voice based networking application that helps drivers avoid or escape traffic jams and find the best routes through an audio conference where other drivers share their own traffic information.
• Dubzer - a website translation software that helps businesses scale their websites across multiple cultures by allowing them to choose the content that should be modified, define the translation process at a Web page level and publish updates on demand without having to reengineer the site.
• Enroute Systems Corp.'s ShipIt! - a state-of-the-art shipment management solution that provides businesses with rules-based carrier and service selection, label and manifest creation, and shipment tracking to help reduce shipping costs, improve shipment reliability and predictability and lowers the carbon footprint.
• Melior Technologies, Inc.'s GuruStorms - an interactive brainstorming site that offers users a team of online experts available on demand to provide ideas and solutions to queries posted in exchange for the chance to win a cash reward.
• ShareGrove, Inc. - an online service that aggregates and streamlines Web-based consumer conversations and media content in real time over a single Web interface.
  

Innovation on the Horizon: A Look into R&D Labs - Search

On Wednesday afternoon, the second of the two-part "Innovation on the Horizon" series took place. The discussion, titled "A Look into R&D Labs - Search" was hosted by Donna Dubinsky, Founder, CEO, and Board Chair at Numenta, Rob Haitani, Chief Product Officer at Vitamin D, Inc., and Dick Lyon, Research Scientist at Google.

Lifetime Achievement Awards

In honor of Chris Shipley's 13th and final year as the DEMO Executive Producer, DEMO honored 16 legendary alumni with Lifetime Achievement Awards for their significant contribution to the advancement of technology. Each attending award recipient took the stage and participated in an interactive town hall open forum allowing DEMOfall attendees to hear from and pose questions to the exclusive group of world-renowned innovators. The full list of Lifetime Achievement Award honorees can be found here.

DEMOgod Award(TM) Winners

Each conference DEMO unveils a new class of the industry's upcoming technologies, and it always proves difficult to pick and choose the most exceptional products. The desirable DEMOgod Awards are given to those that show outstanding potential to succeed in the market while motivating and exciting the DEMO audience. Congratulations to the seven companies that Chris Shipley and Matt Marshall honored with DEMOgod Awards during DEMOfall 09:

• Emo Labs Inc.'s Emo Invisible Speaker Systems
• Hevva, LLC's Local Dirt
• Intelius, Inc.'s DateCheck
• Pinyadda, Inc.
• ShareGrove, Inc.
• Twirl TV, LLC
• Zorap, Inc.
  

People's Choice Award - IDG's Million Dollar Media Prize Winners

The winners of the $1M IDG Media Prize, an unprecedented new multimedia advertising package, were also announced this afternoon, awarded to the top enterprise and consumer technologies that presented at the DEMOfall 09 conference. The multi-faceted media package will consist of a six-month advertising campaign promoting the launch of the selected innovations across the most relevant IDG brands including CIO magazine, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World, PC World and The Industry Standard, among others, as well as the DEMO and VentureBeat Web sites. A panel of industry luminaries from the DEMO ecosystem - venture investors, corporate development officers, proven entrepreneurs, technology reporters and bloggers - evaluated each demonstrator's onstage launch and overall value proposition in order to determine the two prize recipients. Chris Shipley and Matt Marshall honored the following two companies with this exciting award:

• Consumer Award Recipient: Emo Labs Inc.'s Emo Invisible Speaker Systems
• Enterprise Award Recipient: Liaise, Inc.
  

DEMOfall 09 Sponsors & Strategic Partners

Platinum sponsors of DEMOfall 09 are Boston Interactive, the Institute for Information Industry, the Invest in France Agency, Microsoft BizSpark, Porter Novelli, Qualcomm and Sun Microsystems. BluePoint Venture Marketing, Comerica Bank, Connect Public Relations, Cooley Godward & Kronish, National Science Foundation, NEC, NYSE Euronext, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rothstein Kass, Silicon Valley Bank, Sixnology, Symantec, The Bogart Group, TriNet, VCNetwork and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are gold sponsors. Strategic Partners include Angelsoft, Guidewire Group, IDG Ventures, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), The Demo Coach, and VentureBeat.

The official DEMOfall 09 Live Broadcast Sponsor is BitGravity BG Live(TM).

About the DEMO Conferences

Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the DEMO conferences in the United States, China, and Europe focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand - selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting - edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visithttp://www.demo.com/.

The DEMO community also benefits from the award winning DEMOletter. A weekly e - newsletter designed to reach the people who are creating companies, building products and launching new ideas, DEMOletter provides smart insight and analysis of entrepreneurial business issues.

About International Data Group (IDG)

International Data Group (IDG) is the world's leading technology media, events, and research company. IDG's online network includes more than 450 Web sites spanning business technology, consumer technology, digital entertainment and video games worldwide. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries including CIO, CSO, Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, ITworld, Macworld, Network World, and PC World. IDG's lead-generation service, IDG Connect, matches technology companies with an audience of engaged, high-quality IT professionals, influencers, and decision makers.

IDG is a leading producer of more than 750 technology-related events including Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Entertainment for All Expo (E for All), DEMO, and IDC Directions. IDC, a subsidiary of IDG, is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events. Over 900 IDC analysts in more than 90 countries provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends.

Additional information about IDG, a privately held company, is available at http://www.idg.com/.

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