Vote for the 15MOF Winner
You really can’t start mesh without a good pre party. Please join us at the Drake Tuesday (yup- tonight) at 6pm to start the conversation.
We are also opening the voting lines for our six 15MOF finalists. They will be demo’ing in the Village on Wednesday, so you will have an opportunity to check out the technology and meet the people behind the idea.
Here is a bit of each of our finalists’. . .
InGamer is a real-time social game played in conjunction with live sports. The future of media engagement is about amplifying the audience experience by unifying 3-screens in real-time. Play InGamer LIVE with CBC & Hockey Night in Canada at http://starselector.cbc.ca. With 76+ minute Time on Site since launch, the stickiness of the InGamer platform is eye-popping!
Hipsell lets you sell stuff fast and painlessly right from your phone. Your item is posted on Hipsell and Craigslist, and we manage offers and questions for you. We make it fun to sell things.
Lymbix is best known for ToneCheck, the e-mail add-in that checks the tone of your message before you send it. The concept is solid and we know it. (After all, who hasn’t experienced a “say what?” moment after receiving an email message from a boss, colleague or friend that was obviously poorly thought-out.) That said, we’re _so_ much more than an email add-in. We’re often asked: “How do you know that the email tone is ‘off’?” Well my friends: that’s where the magic happens.
Wavo.me is a new service that takes your favorite media sources like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or Soundcloud and extracts all the videos, music and pictures that really matter to you. You can then listen, watch, broadcast and discuss directly on Wavo. The best part is with a click of the mouse you decide which song or video to save to your library where they can be accessed from anywhere at anytime. Our easy to use bookmarklet takes this one step further, allowing you to save and pull content from anywhere on the web. Wavo is your intelligent multi-media library that makes finding and saving cool content easier and more addictive than ever.”
Atomic Reach is a social publishing platform that connects companies and brands looking for high-quality content with the people who create great content every day. It’s an exciting and new concept driven by the belief that content is going to become more important as companies look for new opportunities to engage and provide value to consumers. In simple terms, Atomic Reach helps brands deliver compelling content by tapping into a wide variety of contributors such as bloggers and videographers. For large companies, Atomic Reach offers a powerful and user-friendly content management platform that makes it easy for them to become online publishers.
The benefits: your own team of content producers comprised of your consumers, a platform to manage the people, as well as the content and publishing process, resulting in great content for your web and social media sites every day. The value, more content leads more traffic and greater visibility within your customer base. We also have tools to push your message, offers and promos out onto the web in a cost-effective way, extending the reach of your sales and marketing network.
Padpholio is a user-generated social media portfolio engine for the typical freelancer. padpholio makes you web noticed a lot easier on any search engine and a lot sooner by agencies. Currently in beta and still in development. The creative platform with designers in mind to be introduced this Fall 2011. Accounts are free to set up and feedback is always welcome and considered. Follow padpholio on twitter – http://twitter.com/padpholio; make friends with padpholio fans on facebook – http://facebook.com/padpholio OR simply click in for the early experience – www.padpholio.com”
Congratulations 15MOF Winners
After a hiatus, we decided to bring back “15 Minutes of Fame” this year as a way to help put the spotlight on the growing number of start-ups doing interesting things. We were delighted to receive a flurry of applications from a wide variety of start-ups. It made life difficult for our judges who were given the challenge of boiling it down to six selections.
In the end, the following companies were picked:
The six companies get a pass to mesh11 and an opportunity to demo their idea in the mesh Village. mesh attendees will be asked to vote for the Grand Prize Winner, which will receive the following package:
- A mentorship lunch with Farhan Thawar, vice-president, engineering, with Xtreme Labs
- A half-day PR training session from Edelman
- A one-year membership from the Toronto Board of Trade (more details here)
- A one-hour consulting session with Mark Evans, a mesh co-founder and digital marketing strategist.
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It’s time again for 15 minutes of fame
Now that mesh tickets are on sale, we’d like to get an early start on 15 Minutes of Fame, the mesh session that introduces you to web entrepreneurs and their startups. On each of the two conference days we do a 15 minute segment with three deserving entrepreneurs and/or their startups, who get five minutes each (hence the 15 minutes) to talk to the attendees about their idea and why they are the best thing to happen to the Web. Last year’s winners were Octopz, DemoFuse, FiveLimes, Conceptshare, SneakerPlay and Wild Apricot – there’s video, too.
Head over to the sign-up form and make your pitch — in 250 words or less — about you and your company or idea, and tell us why we should give you five minutes in front of the mesh crowd. If you get selected, you get a free one-day pass to the conference as well as those five minutes of glory. Of course, past winners aren’t eligible, and you must be this big to apply.
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It’s time for your 15 minutes of fame
In case you haven’t been keeping track, it’s May already — and that can only mean one thing: the mesh conference is less than a month away. Check around the site for more info on the amazing speakers and panelists we have coming, including Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist, Tom Williams and Austin Hill, Christine Herron, Techdirt’s Mike Masnick, Rachel Sklar of Huffington Post — and the list goes on.
Tickets are going fast, but there are still a few left if you hurry 
One thing we’re doing again this year is the “15 Minutes of Fame” segment on each of the two conference days, in which three deserving entrepreneurs and/or their startups get five minutes each (hence the 15 minutes) to talk to the attendees about their idea and why they are the best thing to happen to the Web since YouTube. Last year’s winners included the gang at TakingITGlobal, as well as AreYouFrank.com, Favorville.com and Pixpo. Stowe Boyd wrote about the 15 Minutes here, and Tara Hunt wrote about it here.
Same idea this year: head over to the sign-up form and give us a pitch — in 250 words or less — about you and your company or idea, and tell us why we should give you five minutes in front of the mesh crowd to wow them with your brilliance. If you get selected, you get a free one-day pass to the conference as well as those five minutes of glory.
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