A hundred startups lined-up the Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt. Here’s just a small taste of some of the interesting companies that over 1,700 attendees were able to see:
6rounds, which we wrote about in a previous post can be best described as a snazzy one-on-one video chat product.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, 6rounds announced a new API for developers of game, entertainment and collaboration-based apps. With the API, developers can easily integrate all the rich and interactive functionality of 6rounds, including gifting, video effects, and the ability to add multi-user functionality to single player games and videos.
AppFirst provides real-time visibility into the performance of individual applications within application stacks. The idea behind AppFirst’s SaaS-based performance management is to provide visibility into the performance and operational characteristics of applications regardless of language, application type or location (cloud, physical or virtual servers).
With this type of visibility organizations can flag changes before they become problems and have a negative impact on internal users, or external customers.
AppFirst is NYC-based with backing by FirstMark Capital and First Round Capital.
Seven months after we wrote about its closed beta, RankAbove is pushing its automated SEO analysis product, Drive, into open beta.
Drive is intended for sites with a minimum of 1000 pages, up to several million. It performs everything from keyword research and on-page analysis, to link building and acquisition.
For the open beta, RankAbove made some product improvements such as new backlink analysis tool, daily updated competitive analysis, opportunities to find organic relevant backlinks and a new UI. If you’re at Disrupt, stop by their booth for a free site analysis.
sProphet (Sports Prophet) lets fans share sports knowledge by predicting outcomes of real sporting events. For example, they can predict which baseball batter will have the longest batting streak in the MLB this week.
Users play with virtual money to challenge their friends and arrange group prediction tournaments.
sProphet is offered through a destination site, via a Facebook application and soon through a widget which will be offered to partners such as sports sites and portals.
As the web’s first social “hangout network,” Rounds combines online entertainment with video communication to bring friends and like-minded people closer together for a fun, live experience across social networks, operating systems and devices. Bridging the offline and online worlds, Rounds uses shared activities, games and video to give friends the feeling of hanging out in real life. An interactive stream of friends’ and featured users’ “captured moments” from live sessions gives hangouts an afterlife, creating a new social...
AppFirst delivers powerful, yet simple application monitoring to provide DevOps professionals and Tech Execs with full-stack visibility into systems, applications, and business metrics. Our SaaS-based DevOps Dashboard is powered by a flexible big data platform that collects, analyzes, and correlates numerous sources of data – from logs to StatsD to Nagios plug-ins to millions of low-level process metrics. With our beautiful, configurable dashboards, you can easily monitor the information that’s important to your organization, enabling you to...
RankAbove is a global leader in enterprise-level SEO software. Employing proprietary technology and SEO best practices, the RankAbove platform executes full keyword research, on-page optimization and backlink analysis in real time and in any language. Recommendations are actionable and prioritized according to the severity of the issue, and number and importance of the pages affected. Marketers are able to track millions of keywords, backlinks and webpages on a fully manageable dashboard. RankAbove’s roster of clients includes Fortune 500 companies and...
sProphet is a social gaming platform that offers users a new way to share, participate and make predictions about real sports events. At sProphet users gets virtual play money (sProphet Dollars & sProphet Golden Coins) to challenge friends, arrange group predictions or just to try to take the house down, this can be done with sProphet unique system that enables the user to predict outcome of 15 different sports types and over 80 leagues. With their sDollars (“sProphet Dollars”) users can...
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