This week, Library House ran another of its excellent conferences at the BFI IMAX cinema in Waterloo. This time the theme was 'Web Essentials'.
Since it was aimed at getting entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and related support companies together, a lot of the conference content was off to one side of IWR readers' interests. However, with around forty companies presenting their web products and services, some were bound to hit the mark.
Here are a few that might appeal to you at a personal or business level:
Garlik: how much of your personal information is spread around the web? And what can you do about it? That's the hook for this subscription service.
Quintura hopes it has a 'Google-beater' with its 'cloud' based approach to search. Slap in what you're looking for and a cloud of related terms appears to the left and the results to the right. Click on cloud items to refine the search. Companies can bid to attach their mini-logos to cloud words.
Click2Map lets you take a Google map and add stuff to it without programming. A kind of 'mashup for the rest of us'. It's a good idea but it's not ready for primetime. And it's French government backed. Hmmm.
ParkatmyHouse.com rewards you for selling your drive or parking spaces for short or long periods. Prospects tell the service where they're going (a football match, an underground station...) and it will find somewhere for them to park. Plans are afoot for SleepatmyHouse.com and others...
Ever recommended someone for a job? How about getting paid for it? Zubka will get you three or four thousand pounds for something you used to do for nothing.
Although there was general agreement that the mobile market is still difficult, a number of organisations are addressing the opportunities now. MakeMyShow LiveConductor connects people on the move with applications and RSS feeds.
Anywr keeps your contact and calendar information for you so you can access it from any WAP enabled phone. Apparently a phone is stolen in the UK every seven seconds. Makes you think...
Yuuguu is aimed at people on the road. Wherever you are, you can hook up to colleagues and share (and control, if you want) each other's computer screens. Uses national rate numbers to create conference connection in parallel.
Huddle looks to be a(nother) promising collaboration system. Getting praise in high places. Scales from small groups to enterprise.
A few quick mentions: Trexy and Trampoline have been covered in IWR before; AlertMe home security - dinky: take a look; and Wonga - great name, great punchline: "too much month at the end of your money". Instant loans, of course.
Given that this is only a tiny glimpse of the Library House event, you can imagine what an interesting and invigorating day it was.
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