Session six as follows, including our live notes.
Spottt (Adbrite)
Spottt helps like-minded sites promote each other for free. Just put a Spottt on your site, blog, or MySpace profile. Every time you show someone else’s ad, they’ll show yours. Spottt was created by AdBrite, with the assistance of Tony Hsieh, co-founder of LinkExchange.
Simple model, 1:1 exchange model. Same as original link exchange program bought by Microsoft.
More useful than original program. Original co-founder of LinkExchange.com on board
Clickable
Clickable provides a service for creating and managing online advertising. Their technology provides campaign management tools and an intuitive interface to view and manage performance and direct spending across all major ad networks. In addition, advertisers are empowered to self-manage their ad buying to yield transformational results.
TC40 anouncements: Ex AOL CEO has join board, adding Adbrite on site, and released in beta.
advertising aggregation tool, slick interface. Manage campaigns on Yahoo, Adwords.
GotStatus
GotStatus is a community-driven systems management and monitoring tool that is aiming to become “Google Analytics for servers.” Users are able to place a snippet of javascript and start managing and monitoring the server side of their web applications in the same way Google Analytics does for their browser side. They will be able to track metrics on items like new accounts per day, database size, and Amazon S3 usage.
Intro is a comparison to Google Analytics, but states that Google only solves half the problem, no coverage of the server.
Another nice interface, provides server stats including email.
Multi-user platfrom, supports customers/ clients. Can customize results with dashboards, widgets.
“User Generated Monitoring”
PubMatic
PubMatic is a meta ad server that sits between online publishers and online ad networks like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Network and Value Click. Their service helps small- and medium-sized publishers manage and maximize their advertising inventory by seamlessly communicating with multiple ad networks to help them find the optimal ad layout and the highest paying ad network. They also provide them with a central dashboard to track all their ad networks and ad configurations.
Pitch: we’re the first company presenting at TC40 that offers revenue opportunities for publishers.
Pubmatic works as the middle man.
Offers optimization tools as well, color choices, sizes.
In alpha testing until today, now in open beta
Sites using the service have seen 70-110% increase in revenue.
Data is pulled from other ad networks.
Also offers dashboard widgets.
Nice idea, I’ll be keen to try it.
ZocDoc
ZocDoc is an online service that lets consumers find, search and book dentist and doctor appointments. Their service is integrated into dentists’ and doctors’ appointment systems so that last minute cancellations can be filled by other patients. ZocDoc also provides consumers with information on specific dentists’ and doctors’ office including what insurance they take.
Intro: there is a problem with easily finding doctors.
Online way to find and book medical practitioners. Site has just gone live now.
Nifty feature: site shows available time slots.
Play acting on stage, guy trips over, role playing using ZocDoc, something different.
Doctor listing include bio details + user ratings…I can feel a law suit coming on in the next 12-18months…but nice to get reviews of doctors from the user view point.
Experts panel and spotty Wifi. grrrr.
Guy likes Spottt…because it’s the only model he understands.
Esther Dyson likes Clickable, heart is with ZocDoc
Some good discussion around ZocDoc and lawyers, no live blogging as Wifi was down.
Experts seems to like ZocDoc, Clickable, Pubmatic. A strong session, I’d think Pubmatic just as the best product but only because I’ve got a publisher bias.