Signs of times?
Demo, my favourite tech conference which starts this morning in Palm Springs, Calif., got smaller.
How small you may ask? A lot smaller. Think half of what it used to be.
From 80+ presenters last year, 70+ last Fall, this 19th edition of Demo is showing off only 39 products. And my experience, is that amongst them, probably 10-ish are really innovative.
Of course, for those who were around during the tech bubble years, this sound like deja-vu. Back then, Demo was also a shadow of itself.
Here is the full list of companies that will presenting over the next 2-days:
7 Billion People, Inc.; Austin, Texas;
Always Innovating, Inc.; Mountain View, Calif.;
AppZero Corp.; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;
Asurion Mobile Applications, Inc.; San Mateo, Calif.;
Avaak, Inc.; San Diego, Calif.;
BitGravity, Inc.; Burlingame, Calif.;
bluBuzz, LLC; Holland, Mich.;
Cc:Betty, Inc.; Palo Alto, Calif.;
Citrix Online, Goleta, Calif.;
Coveroo, Inc.; San Francisco;
deskNET, Lausanne, CH;
Document Depository Corp., LLC, Wayne, Pa.;
eFormic, Ltd.; Stuttgart, DE;
Ensembli, Ltd.; Sheffield, Great Britain;
Evri, Inc.; Seattle;
Gazaro, Inc.; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;
HAM-IT, Inc.; North Andover, Mass.;
Home-Account, Inc.; San Francisco;
HowSimple, LLC; Huntington Beach, Calif.;
Jadoos, Inc.; Sunnyvale, Calif.;
Kutano Corp.; Burnaby, BC, Canada;
Liquid Media, LLC; Arvada, Co.;
Ontier, Inc.; Portland, Ore.;
Primal Fusion, Inc.; Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;
Promptu Systems Corp.; Menlo Park, Calif.;
Purewire, Inc.; Atlanta;
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, San Diego;
Qubes, Inc.; Taipei, Taiwan;
Silverstone Solutions, Inc., San Francisco;
Skout, Inc.; San Francisco;
SmartyCard, San Mateo, Calif.;
Symantec Corp.; Mountain View, Calif.;
Technicopia, LLC; Carmel Valley, Calif.;
Transformyx, Inc.; Baton Rouge, La.;
Vokle, Inc.; Santa Monica, Calif.;
Xandros, Inc.; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;
XMARKS; San Francisco;
Zipadi Technologies, LLC; Bluffdale, Utah;
Zuora, Inc.; Redwood City, Calif.;
Posted by TechPulse 360 
