by Brian Solis
This week I’m joining Frank Gruber, Sarah Lacy, Jackie Peters, Peter Pham, Andrew Warner, Richard Wolpert, Will Jessup and Devlyn Steele to judge the Showoffs this week at the highly anticipated Twiistup 5 in Santa Monica.
Meet the Showoffs:
Causecast, dubbed “a one stop philanthropy shop” by TechCrunch, is a platform where media, philanthropy, social networking, entertainment and education converge to serve a greater purpose.
Cogi set out with a simple goal – give professionals a way to effortlessly recall and track everything in their important conversations through the use of an intuitive, browser-based service that seamlessly transcribes the important parts of conversation – the ‘COGent Ideas’ or Cogi.
eHow – More than 27 million people visit eHow.com each month to search more than 300,000 articles that are professionally written with clear and concise directions on how to do things. It also has a rapidly-growing library of articles created by eHow’s members and a large library of professional instructional videos.
FixYa empowers individuals to repair and improve upon their already-purchased possessions. The company also offers business services to manufacturers and retail businesses through its custom partnership opportunities.
GoGreenSolar is global group of professionals dedicated to improve the distribution of renewable energy products, services and financing for people everywhere.
Meebo is a new communications and media company that’s re-writing the way people have conversations and communicate on the Web.
RoboDynamics is built by passionate people who want to use technology to shift the status quo and leverage state-of-the-art technology in robotics to change the way people live and work.
TheScene connects individuals to the hottest places, people and events in their area. The Scene’s trendsetting community is on the pulse of nightlife and entertainment in various cities throughout the world.
Viewdle is a facial-recognition powered digital media platform for indexing, searching and monetizing video assets.
Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: ‘What are you working on?’
On Friday February 13th, Frank Gruber (@somewhatfrank), Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda) and I (@briansolis) are hosting post-Twiistup brunch tweetup. Follow us on Twitter and stay tuned for details.
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