Free online OCR. Data Converter. Stupeflix - Video production made easy. OpenHeatMap. Six Startups Blast Off From The Web 2.0 Launchpad. Every year at Web 2.0 Expo, a handful of promising startups are invited on stage to give quick, five-minute pitches to an audience of conference attendees and a panel of judges (you can see our past coverage on these events here and here). Yesterday this year’s batch of startups took the stage, and they didn’t disappoint. My notes on the startups are below. Each company was judged by Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb, Ellen Pack of Elance, and Brian Singerman of Founders Fund. Taking the top prize (as judged by the audience) was Rhomobile. Ask Your Target Market.com A TC DemoPit company that we’ve previously covered, AskYourTargetMarket gives you a way to cheaply conduct market research using online surveys.
The site lets you direct your questions to a target set of users using a number of demographic options (location, gender, etc.). Rhomobile Rhomobile is a platform for writing and deploying applications across an array of mobile platforms (write once/run everywhere).