Essential Startups from The Next Web - reviews
My TNW-ticket was sponsored by The Bean Machine, the company I'm working for. Thank you!
Here are my reviews of the rising suns (will be updated after
hopefully each session):
Best:
Prezi cool new way of making presentations, really visual, spatial... innovative. Most of the other apps were slight improvements (and too much based on web as we know thinking) or reuses of existing ideas (possibly applied to a different domain). So my vote goes to Prezi.
Runner ups:
Mendeley A tool for researchers, helping to orchanize papers. But they have added a social component, trying to become the last.fm for musicians. There have been others before that tried adding social components to online paper cataloging services, but this one seems actually to work (whereas the others don't). Bit boring topic, but think...