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Pinch Media

Stats for mobile applications. Their backoffice looks feature-rich. They want to provide a help for developers’ go-to-market strategy. Launched in August, they are now in millions of distinct iPhones. Fantastic uptake, very good idea.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate: 7/10

Fusion Garage

Browser without the operating system, when you turn on your mobile phone, your browser boots. An open platform to develop web applications. It’s location aware too. According to the screenshots, very good idea. The idea is the way to go, very innovative, even if the only way to succeed is to make an agreement with a device vendor which could push it to the market. Not for the masses, though, but early adopters and internet folks (IMHO).

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 8/10

Cumulux

A unified gateway that helps enterprises to import data from different several applications intoto employees’ mobile devices. You don’t need to have all those applications in your mobile device, but only the relevant data (contacts, accounts etc.). Cool, but my guess is that it’s not going to be easy for a workforce to get accostumed to yet another tool/application.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 5/10

Fonemesh

A way to discover and communicate among devices through a peer to peer technology. Then, different applications can be developed above this technology, sending messages, photos, documents etc. Nothing really special to me. Looks like it is designed for geeks and there are many alternatives to that. Thumb down.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 3/10

ZumoDrive

Another way to sync your many devices. Their application copies your data to the cloud and it can be accessed from your device through the network. The user experience from the iphone looks good. The downside is that you have to access all this data through your data connection, something not feasible/convenient if you are not using a wifi connection. Great idea, but not that innovative idea as well as there could be some problems to get the most out of it due to network limitations.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 5/10

LuckyCal

It is about where are you going to be and uses a predictive presence technology to give you information on what your friends are you doing and where your friends are going to be (it integrates with Google Calendar). I’m not getting it completely, too complex IMHO and some of the features are offered by services like Dooplr too (on the desktop). It’s an interesting location based service but during the presentation they wanted to try to show everything, while at the end I didn’t get it that much.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 5/10

PlaceThings

That’s the one I’m not getting at all. Looks like a lifestream service with multimedia tools that you can place in “locations”. Sorry, thumb down. Available to talk to the founders to get more information that could help me to change my mind. But this rate is only the consequence of a 4 mins presentation I’m attending. I don’t get it.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 2/10

MotionDSP

The idea is to provide a software which can fix videos taken through a mobile phone. It uses some video processing techniques to improve those videos, usually not that good quality.The examples the founders is showing really rock. For the records, I used to work in this space while I was a researcher at University so I really know what the value of a software like this could be. Thumb up.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 8.5/10

TuneWiki

They offer the ability to display the lirycs of songs and videos being played on your iPhone thanks to the connection to their server. They also have the ability to find a word within the lyrics of all the songs in their database and display what songs contain that word, in different languages as well. They have much more too, like internet radio and the ability to show the latest top 10 songs worldwide. 1.3M apps downloaded so far (jailbroken iPhones). Good job.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 8/10

HeySan!

It’s a new mobile social network with chat rooms, the ability to share photos and well integrated with exitent IM networks. It works on any phone. and it’s targeted to teens in US and western Europe. On average, a user spends 5 hours a month on the service. 100M pageviews. Not bad and much promising.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 7.5/10

Fonolo

They provide a way to deep dial into company’s numbers, skipping IVR menus and getting straight to the option you want. You can navigate visually (every voice message is transcripted for a lot of companies) and the number of features they provide is impressive. They can record phone calls and they just launched an iPhone version. I knew them already and I have an account. Impressive. The good part is that, unlike other services, they are REALLY solving a problem.

LucaFiligheddu.com Rate 9/10

I would like to point out that all the votes above are based on the presentations I attended today. So it should be taken as a costructive critic to the presenters, hoping this can help to do better in the future.

And the winner is……

Special Mention: MotionDSP

App to watch: Fusion Garage

By the way, Fonolo has been the winner at Mobilize too (I wrote this before the winners were announced, of course).

Congrats to Shai Berger, Fonolo’s founder and CEO.

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