Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Under The Radar Conference June 3

Social Media and Entertainment - NEW COMPANIES ANNOUNCED!
June 3, 2008 | 8:00am – 6:00pm
Microsoft Campus| Mountain View, CA

Conference: 1 day
Presenting: 40 Startups
Speaking: Top-tier execs from Google, Microsoft, My Space, Fox Interactive, Disney, Nokia, Forrester Research, William Morris Agency, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company & More!
Attendees:
350
Admission: $695

FACE TIME WITH THE RIGHT DEALMAKERS: PRICELESS


ABOUT UNDER THE RADAR:
Silicon Valley's most effective one-stop shop for networking and deal flow.
Under the Radar will showcase 40 vetted and test-driven startups in the entertainment and social media space. Again and again, Under the Radar is deemed by tech dealmakers as the most effective use of time than any other conference today.

WHO ATTENDS?
350 entrepreneurs, VC's, and senior business/corporate development executives from large tech and media companies including: Disney, Fox Interactive, Google, IAC, Microsoft, MySpace, Yahoo, Adobe, AKQA, CAA, William Morris Agency, CBS Interactive, Vivendi Universal, CondeNet, Columbia Pictures, Nielsen and more!

CATEGORIES COVERED:

Social networks, Gaming, Virtual Worlds, Tools, Video, Social Commerce, Publishing, & Community

CONFIRMED JUDGES:
Jack Kennedy, EVP Strategy & Corporate Development, Fox Interactive
Bradley Horowitz, VP Product Management, Google
Dan Schiappa, GM - Strategy & Business Development - Entertainment & Devices, Microsoft
Joshua Newman, Director - Digital Media, Twentieth Century Fox
Scott Sangster, Director of Strateguc Planning & Development, Walt Disney Internet Group
Jason Oberfest, VP Business Development, MySpace
Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, Wall Street Journal/All things D
Charlene Li, Senior Analst, Forrester Research
Dave McClure, Startup Advisor & Angel Investor, 500 Hats
Lewis Henderson, SVP, William Morris Agency
Rob Hayes, Partner, First Round Capital
Robert Scoble, Editor, Scobleizer
Amin Zoufounoun, Corporate Development, Google
Chad Kinzelberg, Partner, Scale Venture Partners
Rick Bolander, Partner, Gabriel Venture Partners
Vineet Buch, Partner, BlueRun Venures


MODERATORS:

Ellen McGirt, Senior Writer, Fast Company
Rafe Needleman, Editor, CNET/Webware
Jeremy Toeman, Marketing Consultant, Stage Two Consulting

WHO'S PRESENTING:
33Across
- Identifies influential online users
Animoto -
Create personalized, professional-quality videos from images and music, offering a new alternative to traditional online photo slideshows
AudioMicro -
Stock music and sound effects licensing platform
Aviary
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Suite of web-based applications for people who create and a marketplace to sell that content
NEW! BigStage - Animate yourself with cutting-edge virtualization technology
Comedy.com - A comedy video site that combines UGC with exclusive content
CrowdSPRING - Crowdsourcing of creative talent.
Curse - MMO gamer community.
Dizzywood
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A virtual world that allows kids to dress up 3D avatars, play games, explore worlds and meet new friends in a safe environment
ffwd - Organized, multi-platform, video content delivered via a browser, with social network awareness, and predictive recommendations.
GumGum -
A licensing and distribution platform for online content
Hollywood Interactive Group - A mass casual mmo based on reality TV concepts and Hollywood stardom.
Jacked
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Browser-based “second screen” for TV viewers, which provides synchronized content and a real-time interactive experience that complements what they’re watching on TV
Jygy - Mobile social networking.
Keibi - Moderation and classification of user generated content (UGC)
Kosmix - Graduate Circle Company - Categorization engine that crawls billions of Web pages in a unique manner to create algo-generated home pages.
Lil'Grams - Tracking your babies memories in real time.
Loomia -
Graduate Circle Company - Social recommendations bridging established social networking sites with media websites
NEW!
Loud3r - Aggregating and publishing semantically searched content
NEW! MediaForge - We've got widgets comin' out our ads
Mochi Media - Provides game developers and advertisers with analytics, distribution, tools and a path to monetization.
MovieSet
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Platform that brings behind-the-scenes filmmaking online, giving fans authentic access through its proprietary toolkit for Producers.
Mytopia -
Social gaming community for Web, Mobile, Smartphone and TV
NEW! Nesting - Organizing family activities, scheduling, networking and more
Overlay.tv - Video commerce platform that overlays contextual information directly onto online video content
Pikum - A new kind of betting game.
NEW!
PluggedIn - Enjoy stunning, broadcast-quality music videos from your browser
NEW! PocketBook - Next generation social analytics

PutPlace - Media storage all the way from Ireland
NEW! Social Media Networks - Graduate Circle Company - Enables developers of social media applications to monetize their traffic

Sometrics
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Social Analytics and Social Ad Platform
NEW! Verismo Networks - High-quality video over broadband without a pc
NEW! Vivaty - Brings together your friends, photos and videos into a personal virtual scene, in your browser
Vusion - HD Quality Video Over the Internet
NEW! Wetpaint - Graduate Circle Company - Largest network of wiki websites

Xumii
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Mobile social networking

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