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About the SIIA Previews

Early-stage, innovative content companies and companies that enable content creation, distribution and commerce solutions were invited to present before an audience of industry leaders and corporate development executives, bankers, technologists and other influencers at SIIA Previews. Each start-up company was given five minutes to present and five minutes to answer questions from the audience.

Company Previews: Content Creators

  • Decision Tree Media creates private-label web guides that drive qualified leads to sales channels.
  • Eurekster empowers communities to own and refine site-based web search.
  • Generate, Inc. provides real-time vertical search (from 41 million domains), directories, and social networking services for media and publishing companies interested in generating incremental page views, subscriptions, and user value.
  • Near-Time integrates a group weblog with wiki pages, team events and shared files in a hosted and secure collaborative environment.

Company Previews: Content Delivery Companies

  • Dragonfly provides a world-class multi-media content delivery network that builds revenue through engagement, retention and advanced metrics.
  • Inform Technologies LLC metatags publisher's existing content and editorial assets to deliver an enriched, personalized online experience, dramatically increasing page views, visitor loyalty and revenues.
  • Pando Networks offers a free, simple to use application with an unprecedented underlying network architecture for rich-media content delivery.
  • RealTimeMatrix has pioneered break-through technology that enables anyone to get relevant content from the Web the instant it is published.

Company Previews: Content Protectors

  • Attributor is creating a platform that provides transparency and accountability in online content use and licensing for the rapidly growing content economy.
  • Cranium Softworks, Inc. helps streamline the publishing and content delivery process and protects online intellectual property.
  • iCopyright, Inc. specializes in developing technology for digital content marketing and licensing.
 

Panels and Keynote

Deal Trends

Leading media industry investors share their insights on the past year of deal making and the future of the content industry. Where are the opportunities? Where is the money going? The panel includes early stage venture investors, private equity and late stage venture and public market investors. (View)

Does Information Want to Be Free

Fred Wilson, Partner at Union Square Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City, dissects the economic conundrum of this digital age. If less information is being distributed in physical form, and if the cost of electronic distribution, at the margin, is zero, when does the price get driven down to the marginal cost? In otherwords, when does content become free? (View)

Complete SIIA Summit Coverage

View the complete SIIA Summit coverage of keynotes, panels and interviews with industry leaders. (View)