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Say No to PowerPoint Week

 Suffering from PowerPoint fatigue? You're not alone. Tech conferences, including Demo and Finovate, have banned boring slide shows in favor of short, fast-paced product demos. For young companies, dissing checkerboard fadeaways ...READ»

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"Google Jail" Revealed

Now that we've fessed up, here's the explainer video from our prank Google Jail story. Kudos to FC intern Austin Carr, and filmmakers Adam Barenblat and Amanda Ligman for the great animations and editing.READ»

DEMO: Is a Big Launch Event Worth it for a Small Company?

’ve recently been privy to a number of discussions about whether big launch events are “worth it” (time, money, human capital) for a young tech company. The focus of some of these discussions has been the twenty-year-old ...READ»

Radian6 in Action

Marcel LeBrun of Radian6 gives a brief demo of his service, featuring their conversation tracking and influencer mapping technologies.READ»

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Intel's Cash Register Concept

Cash registers may not be ringing at the mall, but for a few days this week beleaguered retailers could live in a fantasy world where not only would customers line up to buy again, but sales clerks could use a slick touchscreen to ...READ»

State of the startup industry with Demo Conference's Chris Shipley and Venture Beat's Matt Marshall

Chris Shipley has traveled the world for more than a decade now looking for great startups for launching at the Demo Conference that she runs. This year 39 companies will show their products and services for the first time. Recently ...READ»

Social E-Mail Analyzes Your Friend Network, Organizes Your Inbox

Of all the demos at TechFest 2009, the one I'd pick to include in a future Microsoft product is the Social Views of E-Mail application. It looks like a basic e-mail tool, but it organizes and clusters messages based on social ...READ»

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Skytap iPhone Demo; a Virtual Lab for Enterprise Apps

Steve Brodie, Chief Products Officer at Seattle's Skytap, shows off how to spin up a virtual lab and what it does for you. Later Aaron Brethorst, program manager, shows me the Skytap service running on an iPhone and how you can ...READ»