by Michelle Lentz
It’s conference season and you, the savvy & intelligent readers of bub.blicio.us, are quite sought after.
Under the Radar, brought to you by Dealmaker Media, is offering readers of bub.blicio.us a $100 discount on admission to their Under the Radar event on June 3. This particular event focuses on upcoming players in Social Media and Entertainment. Under the Radar showcases 32 different up-and-coming startups who will each give a short presentation about their business. This is a nifty opportunity to learn what’s coming down the track and be ahead of the game. A couple of them jump out at me, including
Jygy: A mobile social networking site. I’m convinced mobile is where it’s all headed, so this one intrigues me.
PutPlace: An off-site storage location. The intriguing thing is what I call a “vault” feature, which keeps master copies of your originals no matter what you do to the file after that.
CrowdSpring: As a freelancer, I often need things like press releases, logos, and brochures for my business and I go begging to my friends who are good at those things. CrowdSpring basically lets me go beg to the world. Creative folks can take the opportunity to grow their profile and submit their work to paying clients. It’s an intriguing concept, and while I see a few holes in the idea, it has a lot of potential.
Each company and presentation will also be judged, and the line-up includes folks from Google, the Wall Street Journal, MySpace, several venture capital firms, and Robert Scoble.
You can learn more here and register to attend with the discount here.
Under the Radar
Tuesday, June 3
8 am – 6 pm
Microsoft, Conference Center, Bldg 1
1065 La Avenida Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
Dont’ forget! If you know of any cool upcoming Web 2.0-related events, news, trends, or gadgets, send the information my way. Email me at michelle[at]writetech[dot]net or via Twitter.
Discussion
The “Vault” is only a small part of the offering. First of all we need a safe place to store our digital stuff, putplace can do this for you directly, or you can “bring your own storage” by signing up for one of the myriad online storage vendors. We recommend Amazon’s S3 offering as thats is what we use ourselves internally.
But a safe place is only the start, now you need to ensure that you can remember where you put your stuff, PutPlace helps here by remembering that content came from PC A and is stored on online site B. It remembers the back links as well and can identify where other copies of the same content are stored.
So now you have storage and memory, but the final piece of the jigsaw is transit. PutPlace helps you move your content from any location in the home to any location on the web (and vice versa) and will manage that transaction to completion across reboots, network disconnects and power outages.
There is a lot more to come, but this should get you interested enough to signup for the beta.
Joe.
CEO
PutPlace