Guest Speaker: Jay Adelson
Jay Adelson is a serial entrepreneur known for his work founding and running companies such as Equinix, Digg, Revision3, and SimpleGeo. His work has had a profound impact on the development of the Internet itself, the development of social media and the new age of a prolific, ubiquitous and location-aware set of technologies. In 2008, Jay was selected by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
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Face.com
Acquired by
Facebook
Face.com is the largest and most accurate face recognition platform available, with over 100 Million faces processed to date. It is leveraged by a worldwide community of over 45,000 developers and empowering a wide variety of applications on every platform. Face.com has recently launched KLIK, an iPhone camera app that recognizes and helps you tag your Facebook friends in Real Time.
Winner at Techono.me #1
Interlude.fm
Founded by Israeli rock musician Yoni Bloch and backed by Sequoia capital, Interlude is the realization of a vision to offer users a unique next generation online video experience. Interlude’s proprietary technology platform offers users the opportunity to make choices that affect the course of the video in real time. The experience is seamless with no gaps and no pauses, the player can be distributed through a fully embeddable player or an API integration and on any device (Internet, mobile and iOS compatible). The result is a sharable personalized video experience created from potentially millions of unique possibilities.
Winner at Techono.me #2
Magisto
Founded in 2009 by Dr. Oren Boiman (CEO) and Dr. Alex Rav-Acha (CTO) and launched publicly in 2011,
Magisto
offers an automatic video editing solution that makes it easy for users to create and share professional looking movies, complete with effects and transitions, in a click. For years, video footage has lain dormant on memory cards and hard drives, collecting digital dust, because the prospect of video editing was too daunting a task. Magisto is designed to take the work out of video editing, helping users create movies they'll be proud to share, automatically, while they sit back and relax.
Winner at Techono.me #3