With just a little more than a week before Christmas and then the slide into the New Year, the team at DEMO is hustling to support the first dozen or so companies invited to DEMO 2009 while filling the early January calendar with lots of meetings to see the products vying for a spot at the March DEMO conference.

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The DEMO podcasts are back!  This week Carla and Keith discuss reasons why economic downturns can spark even more innovation; companies that debuted during bad economic times; and take a look back at 2008 to see how it will be remembered in the long run. (30:47) 

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Long before the economy headed south, I'd made plans to head west last week. The plan was to spend a week of calm in Hawaii before the holiday and the DEMO 09 planning-crush storm.  What I didn't count on were the first big swells of the winter season. Big waves that churned up the waters, making the SCUBA diving I'd counted on more than a little challenging.

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Hollywood, FL (PRWEB) December 5, 2008 -- i-Lighter, Inc., maker of the popular and critically acclaimed i-Lighter™ digital highlighter tool, announced today that it has formed a relationship with MediaFriendly, creators of an efficient, time-saving tool for media professionals. i-Lighter will add to MediaFriendly's platform of resources for media professionals by allowing users to easily highlight and save snippets of content from any webpage, add annotations, share it, and collaborate using Wiki-Lights, I-Lighter's new networking platform.

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Here we go again... In a pre-Thanksgiving post on Valley Wag titled "Is the Demo conference still worth $18,500?" Paul Boutin stirs up the old DEMO vs. TechCrunch50 debate, dismissing the complete and transparent discussion of DEMO's business practices published here last week and instead calling for a "list [of] all the successful products that were launched at DEMO."

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As the December 1 deadline for DEMO 09 demonstrator applications approaches, you can bet that we're getting all sorts of questions about the event, the audience it pulls, its track record, and - most notably - its price.

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As the December 1 deadline for DEMO 09 demonstrator applications approaches, you can bet that we're getting all sorts of questions about the event, the audience it pulls, its track record, and - most notably - its price.

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Volumes have already been written about the use of social media in the presidential campaigns.  Howard Dean opened the door with his deft use of the Web as a grassroots fundraising tool. The Obama campaign charged through that opening and forever redefined how campaigns reach tens of millions of voters by whatever communications tools they use: MySpace, Facebook, blogs, Twitter, text messaging.

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Over the last few weeks, I've had a number of conversations with VCs and angel investors and if there is one take away from those many discussions it is this:  everyone agrees the economy is gloomy and no one agrees on what it means for funds-seeking startups.

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Montreal, October 27, 2008 – Standout Jobs, a leading provider of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, today announced the general availability of version two of its web-based Recruitment Communication Platform. Previously dubbed “Reception” while in beta, Standout Jobs’ Recruitment Communication Platform boasts many new features and updated functionality proven successful with more than 200 beta customers since the company’s launch at DEMO in January 2008.