Posts Tagged ‘startup’

The SemTech Startup Competition is back by popular demand, and this year it’s sponsored by STI Americas, Web Media Brands (WEBM) Semanticweb.com and Vator. The contest seeks to identify, recognize and reward the best of the best, the most promising innovative seed-stage startups, Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Projects, NSF Funded and University Projects. It’s the perfect venue to show off new semantic technology products and innovations to an audience of potential investors, receive recognition from peers, gain media exposure, and potentially take home the coveted grand prize.

You can fin all the information at http://vator.tv/competition/semtech-2011/

Go, Playence, go!…

getupp is a location-based commitment service. Commit to activities that require your presence at a specific location at a certain time, for example, going to the gym after work or being home on time for dinner. getupp verifies and shares whether you keep or break such commitments. Open the getupp iPhone app at the right location at the right time, and your commitment is completed. But if you fail to show up, your commitment is broken, and your failure is automatically shared with your friends on Facebook.

You can find all the information at http://www.getupp.com/

OpenDover is a sophisticated Web service that allows you to extract the next generation semantic features within your blogs, content management systems, websites or other numerous applications.

OpenDover uses semantic technologies for sentiment tagging texts that you send to the service. Sentiment/emotion tags are returned to users for implementing in web applications, searches, blogs and so on.

On the other han, OpenDover provides a Web service that lets you tag your documents based on sentiments and emotions found in your documents. The OpenDover API can handle different ways of sentiment tagging, depending on what your needs are, or what the content is that you provide via the API.

The OpenDover knowledge base consists of thousands of opinion words, domain-related words and relations organized hierarchically. Since OpenDover is ontology-based, it can recognize the subject domains of the documents parsed via the API.

They also provide a live demo at http://demo.opendover.nl/.

I found today a very interesting startup called Bolder whose business is to engage customers to do good actions by being rewarded by external companies. You can find all the information at the startup’s website: http://actbolder.com/