eWEEK Labs Finds the Best of Demo 09

by Jim Rapoza

Avaak Vue is a powerful and easy-to-deploy video monitoring system for the home or office.

The Touch Book, by Always Innovating, is one of the more innovative netbook designs to date, combining the features of a netbook and a touch-pad.

Xandros Presto is a simple application that, when installed on Windows systems, makes it possible to quickly (in seconds) boot to a small operating system useful for surfing the Web, chatting with friends, editing documents and watching media.

Citrix GoView makes it simple to record any Windows-based application session, record a voice-over and post it online for sharing with co-workers and clients.

Transformyx RallyPoint uses a mix of management technologies to help businesses affected by disaster and other major events manage their personnel and projects as people become displaced from central corporate offices.

Evri is a semantic Web-based service that can be installed on sites to automatically pull in links and other information relevant to the content being viewed on the Web site.

Purewire is a security Web service that alerts users to both Web sites and users of social networks and other services that may not be trustworthy.

Cc:betty is a simple Web-based application that takes any e-mail conversation and creates a Web space that centralizes all content associated with that e-mail thread, whether it’s images, videos, links or documents.

AppZero is designed to make it easier for businesses to take their enterprise applications and convert them for use in the cloud.

With easily the most energetic presentation of the bunch, Skout seems like a silly product for flirting via cell phones. But if it catches on with the under-30 set, it could end up being the best-known application from Demo 09.