Snap Summit^3, Information And Live Demo Overviews

Snap Summit is a day-long conference in San Francisco, CA that focuses mainly on user experience and user engagement in the online space. The agenda is filled with prominent speakers from businesses and websites hailing from every corner of the social web universe including MySpace, Yahoo, RockYou, hi5 and AOL.

There are also workshops that will be discussing how to monetize and build social applications and there is also an entire lineup of demos schedule to run in 10 minute increments from 10:30am to 12:20pm. The demonstrators and who they are representing all are listed below.

Mobclix claims to make iPhone applications better in 15 minutes and with 15 lines of code. Moblix is a way for iPhone developers to analyze their applications in real time, making it easier to adapt and monetize as different trends are recognized.

Moblix was debuted at the TechCrunch 50 conference in September of 2008 and you can see it in action by watching the video to your right.

Apture is a way for any online publisher to transform plain text in to a more interactive and media-rich experience. This is done through the addition of relative videos, images and other media that is relevant to whatever text is currently displayed on the page. Readers can easily view the content provided by Apture without ever having to leave the page.

Apture was quoted as 'giving popups a good name' when information on it's official launch was posted over on TechCrunch.

Pivotal Labs is a software development company that focuses on several areas of expertise including working with start-ups, consulting/mentoring and developing great software in a very quick and agile way.

Their team is full of experience and The Pivotal Process, aka their 'special sauce', is what sets them apart from other development teams. They are currently working with clients such as Urban Dictionary and Salesforce.com. 

TextDigger is attempting to make content more findable by helping publishers realize what tags, phrases and keywords associate best with what they're producing. This tagging and keyword optimization is both for external search as well as internal linking within a website or domain.

Their various service and product offerings range from semantic search to keyword tagging and they were officially launched at DEMO 07.

iWidgets is a social syndication platform that is helping publishers push out their content to the social world so that it can be shared, consumed and updated in real-time. For many publishers this is a great way to get a very engaging widget developed and deployed with no huge upfront cost. 

With some innovative revenue sharing and ad pricing, iWidgets could definitely be a great option for anyone wanting to crank the touch nut that is the online social networking world.  

Snappr allows you to discover and view the world around you through the use of 2D barcodes. The iPhone is the scanner of choice and on October 14th the Snappr iPhone application officially became available in the Apple App Store.

Snappr also lets you create your own barcodes so that other users can easily check out your URL, find information or even vote on a poll. Their 2D-style codes can also be linked to nearly anything - even to your own, personal blog or account on Flickr. The management of the codes is quick and easy, all you have to do is find something to create them for. 

Snappr was developed by a start-up group called BayBrain, which just set up a US location in San Francisco, CA in 2007.

NuConomy takes web analytics and optimization to an entirely new social level with it's latest product offering. NuConomy allows analysis on metrics that have yet to be measured by the more old-school analytics packages that most people have gotten used to. With this new type of social data it will now be possible to adjust marketing, advertising and other initiatives based upon actual information collected from the social interaction with your website.

NuConomy was featured in TechCrunch after it's launch in February of 2008 and is now used by many well-known web properties such as Federated Media and Microsoft. 

Splunk has somehow seemed to find a way to turn something like managing IT logs and data into something that seems to be pretty fun. But, just because Splunk seems to be having too much fun, they also make sure that you are always in the loop when it come to the activity of your servers, applications and any other processes that you need to keep tabs on.

Also, until you hit a certain threshold you can use Splunk for free, but after you grow out of the free version you'll need to upgrade accordingly. Their list of current customers is also pretty impressive, but not nearly as impressive as their sweet t-shirt designs that they wear everywhere they go.