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From StartupCamp
The Winners
Below are the winners of the Best Startup Contest, held during Startup Camp on May 5 in San Francisco.
Adding your company to this list only gave you more visability. It did not enter you into the contest itself. For more information on how to register for the contest, please see How It Works.
Chictopia.com - 1st PLACE WINNER!
- Competitor: Helen Zhu
- Years in business: 1
- A fashion community website
As first place winner, Helen took home a Sun Fire X4150 Server with L5335 CPU & 4GB RAM (approximate value = $US 3,995). Congratulations, Helen!
Lil' Grams - 2nd PLACE WINNER!
- Competitor: Greg Narain
- Years in business: 1
- The most precious moments of your baby's life are countless - but they only come once. With LittleGrams, you can keep, track, and share anything about your baby.
As second place winner, Greg took home a 24" Flat Panel Monitor (approximate value = $US 2,000). Congratulations, Greg!
Bidnkind.com - 3rd PLACE WINNER!
- Competitor: Rose Riskind
- Years in business: 1
The Competitors
Below is list of the other competitors in the Best Startup Contest, held during Startup Camp on May 5 in San Francisco. This list is in alphabetical order.
Adding your company to this list only gave you more visability. It did not enter you into the contest itself. For more information on how to register for the contest, please see How It Works.
blissn
- Competitor: Mark Carranza
- Years in business: 1
- We are: Institute for the Prevention of Design (5 of us so far)
- What: Create and share your understanding of the world: blissn it! blissn is the universal personal meaning platform -- A playful new way of mixing brainstorming with your own keywords to track and share thoughts, ideas and your life. You can private- or share-tag anything digital; it's saved in a time stream and accessible anytime, anywhere for everything you ever want to find again.
- Funding: Angels and self-funding by the team.
- imagine Google (mixed with Wikipedia and Twitter)
- make it completely open
- make it completely secure
- make it deeply personal
- make it simply social
- make it simple
- make it fun
- make it participatory
- make it ubiquitous
- make it free for individuals
- make it cheap for privacy control, groups, businesses, and commerce
- fake motto: Don't be Google :)
- real motto: Be happy :)
example: SemanticWeb2
EcoChicCycling - Green on the Go website is under construction
EcoChicCyling's logo is at the artist table being developed. It is really cute and being trademarked.
- Competitor: Dawn D'Onofrio, a new leader in start up!
- Who are you? I am a true start up entrepreneur as this is my first venture. I am a seamstress/designer, women/mother, a cyclist , a professional business person doing this soley on my own.
- What are you doing? Offering industry standard certified "green", eco-friendly cycling apparel, accessories, related products for women of style on the move.
- As we are aware, there is a growing movement towards environmental awareness driven by strong consumer demand for eco-friendly products in every aspect and sector of the economy on a global level.
- This eco market is wide open with seemingly endless opportunity for unlimited growth and financial gain.
- The 'green' movement was a 250 billion dollar business in 2007 w/1 in 5 buying green and 35.1% of that business in the apparel and accessories markets.
- My passion is cycling which is generally considered as a community of people whose mentality, culture and focus is typically geared towards promoting environmental responsibility, awareness and health.
- In an industry "geared" towards enjoying the environment and offering alternative transportation, there is a lack of earth friendly items to complete the cycle for the cyclist/biking enthusiast in a world and segment that appreciates this concept. The chain is broken in the model for environmental responsibility.
- I offer clothing and related items of a sustainable nature that are eco-friendly and of partially organic and recycled components - many certified by the developing industry standard for "green". The items offer function and performance and the wearer a choice and way to do their part in the growing demands of environmental preservation and help offset the negative impact we have on the environment.
- The women's market is growing 38% a year nationally and is an underrepresented market that's ripe with opportunity.
- My goal is to fill this gap and supply this ready and waiting niche market of women's
cycling w/alternative and sustainable solutions that will carry over into our daily lives and family w/eco-friendly apparel, accessories and components for cycling be at as a sport, recreational activity or alternative means of transportation.
- The products will complete the eco-friendly chain by being green certified according to industry standards from the manufacturing stage to disposal of the product.
I am also working on the re-development and patent of several cycling accessories to be eco-friendly for commuter cyclists.
- Funding - I am working to make the $ to support this fabulous and relevant and needed business. In the meantime, I am doing it bit by bit as I can to make it go but it is growing at such a phenomenal rate already in concept, and the need and market is there NOW to capitalize on. Any interest can e-mail me at computehappy@hotmail.com to discuss business arrangements.
- Thank you and vote responsibly! Vote green, vote for the environment. Heck - Just give me your wooden nickel and I will turn it into real $$$$!
- Thank you everyone and thank you Sun, sponsors and panel members for such a great couple days!
Enterto.com
- Competitor: Dan Barrett
- Years in business: 5
foldier.com
- Competitor: Michele Ursino
- Years in business: 1
- foldier organizes your digital life.
- A dynamic social utility, foldier leverages Internet technology to create a virtual filing system for all your digital content -- whether it's on websites all over the place or on your very own hard drive. After you've linked an item to your foldier account and tagged it, you can share it or forget it until you need it. No filing necessary, unless you like everything in folders -- because all you have to do to retrieve the item later is to search for it under one of your tags. You can publish your own RSS feeds, begin a conversation about an article you've read, share your Flickr files automatically and even send things to your Facebook contacts, which are listed in foldier. foldier uses live links, not synchronization, and makes your data portable without removing it from its home.
foldier, currently in beta, is located in San Francisco.
gatherra.com
online invitations that don't suck
- Competitors:eVite
- Years in business: 1
- Does the thought of having to use eVite make you throw up in your mouth a little. What about the other invite sites? Great, I love having to register, then fill out endless forms, just to get a simple invitation out. What do I look like, an accountant. Idiot. Just use email, you say. Oh yeah, fantastic idea champ, now I've got a 60 person email thread going. Who's coming? Don't ask me I'm planning this thing using email. Don't you wish there was a better way. There is. Yay! gatherra.com makes it easy to create great looking invites, mange and communicate with your guests (and them with each other), and all without making you want to cancel the whole thing before it's even started.
Description
- Online invitations that are easy to create, attractive and AD FREE. Easy to use communication and event management tools.
Business Model
- Yep, we've got one, it doesn't rely on advertising, and we're more than willing to discuss it with investors. Interested?
Management Bio
- CEO with 19 years software engineering/management experience (10 of those in internet and start-ups). VP with 10 years corporate law and marketing.
MarkMail
- Competitor: John D. Mitchell
- Years in business: 1
We've Got Mail!
- MarkMail is the archiving and discovery tool for public and private email.
- MarkMail.org is the archive of record for open, public mailing lists.
Email Hell
Email remains the dominant mechanism for digital communication. Alas, existing email tools suck -- they were designed and built with the mistaken beliefs that individuals don't have many emails and that the organizations' big, bureaucratic information systems (that people are forced to use) might be useful.
The reality is that there is so much information and it moves so quickly that standard information management systems are not able to keep up with the needs of individual users and organizations.
People want answers to deeper questions such as:
- Who has been talking about XYZ recently and over time?
- Exploring the many business plans I received in the last year that deal with social networks in continental Europe?
- What's Joe's latest contact information?
- Find the latest version of the contract with Acme (that's locked away in a .doc attachment)?
Quickly being able to find and explore the vast sea of information that's currently locked away inside our email is the key value that MarkMail delivers.
Who are we?
MarkMail is the creation of Jason Hunter, Ryan Grimm, Ian Small, and John Mitchell inside Mark Logic Corporation.
MyLocator.com
- Competitor: Danny McGowan
- Years in business: 5
- MyLocator.com promises to radically alter the search engine space by cutting out middle men like Google and Yahoo. The Mylocator engine works by classifying over 1300 domain name categories and allowing searchers to first pick the category and then what they are looking for. The outcome should be more accurate search results from an engine that puts searchers directly in contact with what they are looking via vertical searching. To put it simply, Google and others search by scouring the internet for keywords that users search for and then spits out the results. Mylocator allows people to search through categories of domains that are networked bringing better results faster. The potential for increased revenues due to better targeted search results could also be enormous.
Description
- 1300+ Strategic Vertical Locator Domain Names. A multichannel network of locator engines for every subject. Pioneers of Strategic Vertical Locator Cluster Technology.
Business Model
- MyLocator.com is a strategic multi-channel location based domain name network. Pioneer of Strategic Vertical Locator Cluster Technology. Today he controls a porfolio of over 1300+ vertical locator channels.
Management Bio
- Pioneer of Vertical Locator Cluster Technology Most Valuable Collection of Strategic web properties ever created. 1300+ locator engines. First to solve search. King of Location.
IP and defensibility
Most unique cluster of strategic niche market vertical location based web properties ever created. A family of locator engines for every subject.
OrcaTec LLC
- Competitor: Autonomy
- OrcaTec LLC provides the information infrastructure that Web 2.0 applications live on. The radical approach of the OrcaTec system is to exploit directly unstructured information rather than force all information into a fixed structure. It improves on standard database approaches by recognizing that human cognition is dynamic, creative, and contextual and so should be the technology that serves it. The OrcaTec Information Retrieval Toolkit provides the intelligence to search conceptually without the need for detailed taxonomies or ontologies. Rather than depending on taxonomies or ontologies, which are always a struggle to maintain, the patent-pending system learns the meanings of words from the documents that it reads and exploits that meaning to amplify and support human cognition.
A few applications of this approach include:
- Agents that follow news feeds and alert the user to interesting news based on past interests.
- Search for semantically related information, rather than just key words or taxonomic entries.
- Matching ads with web content.
- Identifying experts or people with specific interests in a social network.
- Cross-language search.
- Categorizing emails or other documents.
- Plagiarism and author recognition.
- Music recommendation.
- Knowledge management.
One client application was produced in cooperation with Owl Insight for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is being considered for NASA Software of the Year. This knowledge management system included Best Practice and other NASA Engineering documents in a variety of media, including video, audio, HTML, and Microsoft Office formats. All of these were made intelligently searchable, using the OrcaTec Information Retrieval Toolkit. The system automatically played video and audio files while displaying a transcript. Because of the intelligence imparted by the OrcaTec toolkit, it could find documents that were related to the query, even if the query word did not appear in the document. A search for the word "Gauss" for example, also returned documents that were about magnetic fields, even though this word did not appear in them--all without any kind of taxonomy, thesaurus, or ontology.
The main JPL search screen showing a concept search for the word "Gauss," a measure of magnetic strength.
The summary search result screen showing the result of a concept search for the word "Gauss." The bottom two documents do not contain this term, but are still about magnetic fields.
The summary search result screen showing the result of a search for the word "Titan," showing the playback of a video document.
Company background
- The OrcaTec approach is based on 17 years of research on dolphin biosonar and 10+ years working in unstructured information management and retrieval. OrcaTec provides the tools needed to create killer applications.
ProofOfService.com
- Competitor: Charles Benninghoff
- Years in business: 3
- Proof of Service - electronic (PoS-e™) is recognized by the United States Federal Court system as a reliable method of service of process.
QuesGen Systems, Inc.
- Competitor: Michael Jarrett
- QuesGen enables is a SaaS application that allows medical investigators to build a platform to manage their research data easily. We have built the application on a LAMP platform, using all open-source tools. We have a dozen clients today and are planning for significant growth.
- QuesGen was started with the vision that web-based research could change how research is conducted. Since many of the diseases impacting society today are lifestyle related (over eating, alcohol or drug addition, disease management), collecting data directly from subjects over the Internet will get research closer to the issue.
ShoppingNotes.com
- Competitor: Meng-You Yang
- ShoppingNotes.com is shopping bookmark powered with price watch engine. It is one central place to save all your favorite products you find anywhere on the Internet, and our powerful price watch engine can alert you whenever your favorite products change prices.
- We are the first ever web site that combines shopping bookmark with price watch that works with any product URLs. If you are a shopper, ShoppingNotes.com not only helps you organize all your shopping information, but also brings you significant savings with our powerful price watch feature. If you are a merchant, ShoppingNotes.com can retain customers and promote your merchandise in a highly targeted way like never before!
- We are an Internet company devoted to developing cutting-edge technology for on-line shoppers and merchants. We pioneer the "Semantic Web" (or sometimes called "Web 3.0") technology in the shopping domain. Our intelligent software is able to understand any product pages and extract their product images, prices, and more, which nobody else in the world has ever achieved.
- We've got angel funding.
Strawlink
- Competitor: Alex Prokhorenko
- Years in business: 1
- Strawlink is an action confirmation service.
- Early stage startup.
- Multi-billion markets approached.
- Strong founders background in tech and management.
- Feel free to ask more questions
SugarStats.com
- Competitor: Daerick Lanakila
- Years in business: 2
- SugarStats makes it simple to track, monitor and share your blood sugar levels and other key statistics to help you manage your diabetes online.
Thomas Executive Resources
- Competitor: Mark Thomas
- Years in business: 3
Company Description
Thomas Executive Resources is a boutique staffing firm specializing in on-site recruiting services for start-up, mid-sized, and Fortune 100 companies, We have both the technology and people resources to act as the entire staffing department for your company. Our specialty is delivering quality candidates in a timely fashion, all at a fraction of the cost that it would take you to hire your own permanent recruiting staff or to use contingency agencies. In addition, you won't find better customer service anywhere else, as we pride ourselves on not just being recruiters, but rather consultants to your business. We deliver the highest level of client expertise in the industry by taking the time to listen to your needs and bringing to you what's most important - high caliber candidates at a minimal cost. Our top-level customer service and client relationships have allowed us to become one of the fastest growing staffing firms in the San Francisco Bay Area today.
Specialties
WHY USE THOMAS IN-HOUSE? Because we provide Money Back Guarantees if we don't meet our Service Levels!
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL, OTHER BENEFITS OF THOMAS INCLUDE:
- No more outrageous contingency fees or hourly contractor rates
- We pay for all job postings, background checks, etc.
- You receive dedicated professionals from our team of permanent Recruiters that work on-site to meet all your hiring needs
- You'll have access to the world-class applicant tracking system, Peopleclick
THOMAS EXECUTIVE RESOURCES IS CURRENTLY SEEKING INVESTOR FUNDING
Ultimate Football Network
- Competitor: Jonathan Joseph
- The Ultimate Football Network is a social media resource for Pro Football Fans and Fantasy Football team owners. UFN is pre-launch and located in San Francisco, CA.
- Self funded to date and in the process of putting together angel round. We're also looking for kick-ass Ruby developer.
- Jonathan Joseph is the Founder/CEO/Head Coach of the Ultimate Football Network. Prior to founding UFN, Jonathan was a social media consultant and a venture capital investor at In-Q-Tel.
Valuation Creation Capital
- Competitor: Dave Burleigh, VCC is the True SUN Startup Camp "UN-COMPANY".
- Years in business: 4
- Valuation Creation Capital (VCC) is a startup designed to repair/turn around technology based startups. VCC defines failure as those companies that are failing to achieve their milestones as promised to their investors. VCC, operationally, as an organization, is a virtual network of resources, tools, standards/metrics and services providing entrepreneurs various levels of support. Users are free to select/plug n play from the menu. ALL of the investment companies such as VCs, Hedges, Investment Banks, etc. (..BE HONEST, DID I MISS ANY??) DO NOT WORK IN THIS Market Segment. If you are blind or unaware(as are most entrepreneurs), you may not be aware that 30 to 40 percent of all startups fail. So.. WHO YA GONNA CALL? (we think VCC is the only company available.. (and we would be willing to debate that with you).. Otherwise VOTE FOR US! And take more out of work college professors out of retirement!
- Dave Burleigh has founded over 5 or 6 (depending on how you count)of the major technology companies in "Silicon Valley". He has over forty years experience in improving and turning around valuations for startups. He is also the Architect of some of the key roll ups/consolidations of the technology industry.
Velocious
- Competitor: Steve Knox
- Years in business: 0 (our goal is to launch in fall 2008)
- The Velocious mission is to provide the leading service for easier ordering and faster, higher quality fulfillment of on-the-go meals and drinks.
- We will do this by combining the power of the Internet, wireless communications, state-of-the-art voice recognition, speech processing, location awareness technologies, and artificial intelligence to create a highly automated, ordering and fulfillment service. Virtually any food and beverage vendor will be able to leverage the service to increase revenue and improve quality. For end customers, the interface will be nearly as natural as talking to a real person. We aim to create a true one-stop shop for anyone who wants food or beverage without waiting in line, yet retain the quality of having the food fresh from the kitchen.
- Steve Knox founded and has run a successful custom software development and consulting business for the past 15 years.
Wall of Videos
- Competitor: Christian Baudry
Description
- The Wall of Videos is a communication tool allowing users to share their passions with their friends. Users can record videos of themselves making a point. They can illustrate and give credibility to their point by inserting video-clips found on video-sharing sites.
- It integrates with FACEBOOK (and soon MySpace)
- Versions for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Czech, French and UK market in 2 weeks!
Business Model
- There is a FREE version for individuals (online video ads) and a PREMIUM version (subscription, volume) for companies.
We are in a pre-launch stage and we need YOU!
- We need YOU to create a great product and build a great company!
- We need...
- ..... All attendees to try the FREE version either through Facebook or directely and send us suggestions.
- ..... Communication agencies active in video online advertisement to fine-tune the FREE version.
- ..... Companies and Communication agencies to fine-tune the PREMIUM version.
Share your passion and win a Wii Fit!
- To thank attendees for their help improving this Facebook application, there will be a drawing among attendees who (1) build - before Thursday May 15th at 6PM - at least one Wall of Videos using their Facebook account, (2) create on their wall at least 3 recordings (Intro / Transition / Call for action) and complete with video clips from sharing sites, (3) send an email to ChristianBaudry (at) Gmail.com before Thursday May 15th at 6PM, indicating the name of the wall as well as at least 3 suggestions on how to improve the application or make it more successful.
- How to use this Facebook app User talk:ChristianBaudry
- Prizes: 3 Wii Fit
- Share your passions using
The Waitlist
Below is list of the companies who didn't sign up in time to compete in the contest. We think their ideas are great, however, so have decided to keep them posted here for everyone to see. This list is in alphabetical order.
Cabracadabra
- Submitted by: Daniel Raynaud
Post by ME!
- Submitted by: Celltrigen Inc.
Company Details
Post by ME! is a location-based web & mobile community for posting and viewing user generated news (citizen journalism). Users can post their stories in text, image, audio & video formats. All posted articles are geo coded and shown in real time.
Key features include:
- rate & comment on articles,
- group or private chats with other users,
- filter content based on location limits or categories,
- share on Facebook in addition to the PostbyME! mobile community.
Let your voice be heard. Tell the world your story...your way...on... Post by ME!
Founders
Celltrigen Inc., was co-founded by Canadian entrepreneurs, Vinesha Perera & Yiping Ye, who has over 20 years of combined experience in the telecommunications industry.
FESTIVAL ALLEY
The Everyday Event
- Submitted by: Festival Network Online
- FA on Facebook
- The best worldwide Festival Calendar including Art, Street, Music, Eco-Green and Speciality Events
- Meet and shop the newest vendors and services online
- Real festival and product reviews from attendees
- Make new social connections before and after the fest
- Find local, national and international events
HotClubDancers.com
- Submitted by: Leonid S. Knyshov
- We are a hot video dance social network... whew, that's a mouthful
- We are creating an entirely new media network.
- Funding? Yes, please! Talk to me and I'll be happy to take your money!
Text is bad. Listen to what I have to say about my company :)
MEDgle
- Competitor: MEDgle
- What could be better than helping everybody find better health? Towards that, we founded MEDgle in Sept 2006. MEDgle seeks to provide global health care transparency by guiding consumers to relevant diagnoses, physicians, services and health products through a personalized medical search. To increase global impact, MEDgle is available in seven different languages including simplified and traditional Chinese.
Universal access to a virtual doctor and its potential positive impact has been discussed and written about for years. In addition for over the last 30 years, automated diagnostics has been a focus and interest of artificial intelligence. MEDgle is an automated diagnostic expert system and search that is accessible to general consumers. The data structure, approach, and algorithms behind MEDgle are a synthesis of probabilistic belief networks and search. We believe the level of personalized results and range of results is perhaps the best in the world to date.
Especially with health, personalization is key to make the results relevant and useful. When doing a symptom search, the user wants potential diagnoses not web pages. Also, leveraging the expert system, MEDgle provides different results depending on the consumer’s age, gender and lifestyle factors such as smoking. MEDgle takes into account who you are in addition to what you are searching for.
Over the course of the last year, we have received a number of emails from consumers stating the usefulness of MEDgle in helping them determine their conditions and seek appropriate care earlier than would have otherwise been the case. For example, we have helped a person consider hypothyroidism as a cause of his symptoms, another individual to consider plantar fasciitis as a cause of his foot pain, and another think of atrial septal defect for a constellation of symptoms that had gone undiagnosed for thirty years. The following is typical of the many emails we have received:
“This is so awesome. i had a condition 2 years ago that took months to identify and was misdiagnosed several times. MEDgle would have gotten us there in about 30 seconds! “
The continuing motivation we get from just one of these stories is very valuable. MEDgle has many benefits for the consumer: The objectivity (computerized) yet personalization of the search (by age, gender and lifestyle options) enables the consumer to search in privacy, without embarrassment. The results can be communicated with his/her physician through fax or email, thus enhancing the role of the consumer as a partner with the health care provider and ensuring a more meaningful dialogue.
- Funding: Currently we are bootstrapped.
Price!pinx
- Submitted by: Gerhard Engel
- Price!pinx allows online shoppers to request price drop alerts for any product on almost any retailer’s website. Our free service smoothly integrates into their online shopping experience by using a smart bookmarklet: on the retailer’s website shoppers click the smart bookmarklet which automatically records the product information and the price. Price!pinx then monitors the price and sends email notifications about price drops as they happen. Shoppers save money and time.
- Our powerful price monitoring engine currently tracks prices on more than 1,100 websites in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia.
- Launched in March 2008.
- Both co-founders have a strong consulting and software development background as well as years of experience in the retail industry.
Protecode Inc
- Competitor: Mahshad Koohgoli
- Protecode Inc focuses on automatic software Bill of Materials (BOM) generation and Intellectual property (IP) management.
- We detect bits and pieces of code that end of in your product (code snippets or full library files), create a log, and identify their attributes such as their Licensing requirements. you can create a report and check out how many GPL instances you have, where a particular file or code snippet came from, and who contributed what to your collaborative project. Lead user trials started four months ago and moving into public trials now.
Routiki.com
- Competitor: Dan Andrews
- Routiki is a route sharing application.
Taxis for the Twenty-First Century
Cabracadabra calls you a taxi using your mobile phone. Yes, you can do that already, but can you do this?...
- Send out the request to all (participating) cab and limousine companies that service the area and let you pick which ever offer is most convenient
- Get a description of the cab and the driver (id, photo etc.) so you can know who’s picking you up, and later can get back that bag you accidentally left on the back seat
- Get notified when the car has been dispatched to you, and when it has arrived at the pickup location
- Pay for the service through your pre-registered credit card / paypal account, and …
- (favorite feature for you business travellers) Have all your taxi expenses aggregated and categorized automatically so you can track expenses and invoice different
So, you don’t need to...
- Know where you are (if your handset is GPS enabled)
- Know any cab numbers, or try and get lucky finding that one depot that has the one available car near you
- Wait until the cab was chase up and see if it is late for your trip to the airport
- Worry about not having the right size bank notes
- Futz with those darned paper slips and remember what trips you took for your expense sheets
- Worry about safety and accountability – you know exactly who picked up your kids and when they got dropped off
Business Model
Cabracadabra provides a value add to a mature business - convenience to passengers, and easier access to customers for cab and limousine companies. We also provide a full featured desktop application to manage and track rides and requests, including a chat interface with passengers to reduce the amount of time spent on voice calls. We charge a per ride fee to the service providers for each ride routed to them through our application*
Who's building this?
Daniel Raynaud (daniel@sharpninth.com) founded ThumbJive Inc. and has been involved in the design, execution and launch of dozens of web and mobile products, some of which were successful!
Vacation Rental Wonderland
- Competitor: VRBO
- Travel site for second home owners to advertise their home for rent for
short term rentals.
YourVersion
- Submitted by: Dan Olsen
- YourVersion is a social discovery engine that makes it easy to discover and share new and relevant content tailored to your interests.
- Founder and CEO Dan Olsen is a Web entrepreneur with a technical background, a Stanford MBA, and over 16 years of high-tech experience. Dan worked at Intuit for 5 years, where he led Quicken product management and launched an online brokerage. Dan also led product management at Friendster. Before starting YourVersion, Dan was consulting to start-ups on product management. Dan presented on Web 2.0 Product Management: Optimizing Metrics and Viral Growth at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in April.
- YourVersion is looking for talented developers (PHP/MySQL, JavaScript/AJAX, front-end, and XUL).
