Under The Radar
The Under The Radar event yesterday was excellent. I enjoyed being a judge in the various sessions -- although I was a bad boy, and did very little prep work -- and the organizers did a great job. Kudos to Debbie Landa and Alison Murdock, both of IBDNetwork, and all the other folks involved. Sean Wise did a great job moderating, and I was honored to sit with my fellow judges, Kevin Efrusy of Accel Partners and David Tennehouse of A9.
The event was all about consumer software, and I was acting as a judge for Search 2.0 and Community 2.0. Some of the companies were pretty far along, like Dogster and Tagged. I guess the products that most interested me were Loomia, Sphere, and Riya. I also sat in other sessions, as a pedestrian, and I was especially intrigued with Goowy and Tailrank. I plan to do a series of posts over the next week on those companies that caught my eye.
The big news at the show came out of Mike Arrington's fireside chat with Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive, during which he announced the imminent acquisition of "a company in the room" which led to quite a stir, and all sorts of guessing. My guess, Tagged, has already been proved wrong.
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