I’m sitting next to Steve Gillmor and Dan Farber, listening to Senator Edwards talk to the audience. He is being very well received. Lots of good questions.

My session was earlier. When I’m on stage talking I never know how I’m doing. Could be great or terrible. But I had fun talking about new web companies that are making the transition from the early adopter crowd to a more mainstream audience. Winer and Farber wrote about my talk, and Scott Beale has pictures here and here.

This is such a great conference.

Someone emailed me last night asking for the feed reader breakdown for TechCrunch. I’ve included a feedburner screenshot below with the numbers.

Firefox (including Flock) accounts for 20% of feed readers. Bloglines is in second place with 13%, followed by NewsGator at 12%, Rojo at 8%, FeedReader at 7%, and Netvibes at 7%. Other notables include Pageflakes, Pluck and Attensa. If you add NetNewsWire to the core NewsGator stats, NewsGator is actually bigger than bloglines.

What’s most interesting to me is that “other” accounts for 33% of readers. This is an incredibly fragmented market.

On a related note, NewsGator CTO Greg Reinacker has posted the NewsGator product roadmap. See TechCrunch for details.

Steve G called me up tonight to ask if I’d read his most recent blog post on inforouter. He specifically asked me not to link to it, but since links are dead according to Steve I guess it doesn’t matter either way. And besides, I know Steve likes the “attention”. As usual Steve is going on in a roundabout, stream of consciousness way of saying “I’m a victim”, but he’s pointing his gun at some different people than the usual suspects this time. And if someone can explain to me what the hell “Then I repaired to the lobby couches and watched Seth and Jonas giggle like grade-schoolers as their Root worm widgets began to tunnel their way into the Root architecture. Jonas and I debated the analogy between Hendrix feedback and the Widget/worm platform.” means I’ll give them a dollar. No one crafts a sentence like you, Steve, but I still don’t know what the fuck you are talking about 99% of the time. All’s well that ends well, though. Steve’ll just change his story to fit the historical facts after this attention stuff plays out. And you know what? I’ll still be on his side. Just keep the guns pointed away from me, Steve.

Update: My final notes are up on TechCrunch

We’ve just kicked off the connected innovators program at Supernova. This is so cool - we’re seeing company demos live here at the Palace Hotel, there’s live IRC chat at irc.freenode.net/#supernova, and this is being live cast on Second Life (if you have a second life account, click here)

There are twelve companies presenting. I’ll be writing these up formally on TechCrunch, but my real time notes are here:

Sharpcast

I’ve writen about Sharpcast a number of times. They’ve released a cool tool to sync photos between the desktop and a mobile device (and other computers). Change the file on one and it autosyncs with all other instances. Frankly, it makes Picasa look fairly lame. Website is at sharpcast.com.

Webaroo

Webaroo - see techcrunch post here. Webaroo takes parts of the internet (pre defined or user defined sites) and saves it to your hard drive - allowing you to access it when you are offline. I like this because there are still times that we are offline and need access to access stuff on the internet. Mac client is coming soon.

PostApp

PostApp is announcing the beta of its widgetbox - Marshall just wrote about PostApp on TechCrunch. PostApp will allow website owners to bring web services directly to their sites without having to use the API. PostApp takes care of the technical side for them.

Ed Anuff is the CEO. Talking about “widgetizing the web”. wants to make the usage of widgets on line easier and more widespread.

widgetbox - two important pieces of functionality. Marketplace to allow developers to create, publish, monetize their widgets.

see www.widgetbox.com.

Vpod.tv

Vpod.tv is a very cool online video application that I first saw in Spain at the Innovate conference. (techcrunch post on vpod here).

This is a very crowded space, but vpod is one of the most interesting applications. They’re running an interesting experiment around monetization. I also like that you can create your own channel and the interface to create the look and feel of the channel is totally Ajax.

Vpod is headquartered in Paris and Madrid.

Ether

See Ether posts on TechCrunch here. Ether allows you to sell your time on the phone, Ether handles all aspects of the call. Users go to the site, arrange for a call and payment, and make a call. The seller takes the call knowing that they are automatically being paid just by picking up the phone. Time can be set, for example, at $50 for 30 minutes. At the end of the time, the call can end, or charging can end, or another fee can be charged. They officially launched today and were covered at TechCrunch here (Ether).

attap/LifeIO

Bruce Spector presented. His other companies include Riffs. They have some other cool companies too. LifeIO is launching in september. early look here at Supernova. combines email, IM, Calendar, Contacts, ToDo, etc…looks like an ambitous multipage ajax homepage, but I may be wrong. Screenshot was shown, I will post it on Flickr.

Yep, Bruce just said its an Ajax UI. The framework is being opensourced, jitsu.org. This may be the interesting part of the story. I’ll dig much deeper into this. Reminds me, its time to do an update on Riffs as well, cool stuff going on over there.

GearOn/Protomobile

Gearon is a mobile user interface with a buddy list for the entry point for photo sharing, music sharing, events, etc. Interesting mobile application - I need to get Oliver at MobileCrunch to take a look.

Soonr

See TechCrunch posts on Soonr Here. I love Soonr because they find a way to make things work on a mobile device that otherwise wouldnt
t. It allows you to run Skype on your normal cell phone, for example, among other things.

Zixxo

I’ve loved Zixxo from the first second I saw it. 395 billion coupons in US in 2005 printed. 79% of US residents use coupons. Website is here.

Business can use Zixxo to create a coupon. consumers print and redeem coupons. Business charged $.50 for a used coupon (they actually charge “per print” regardless of whether or not it’s used.. Revenue share to whoever brings the business (40%) and whoever brings the consumer (15%). Interesting API to include coupons directly into other sites and services.

national cost - $.30 for redeemed coupon (newspapers). Local cost, $8 - $40 per redeemed coupon (direct mail).

Attensa

Craig Barnes from Attensa presented - he’s a cofounder and CEO. Website is here. Attensa is one of the funded RSS/feed reader companies. They also have their own slant on “attention”. Not concerned with clickstream. Rather, looking at other behavior characteristics - hundreds of factors, time of day read, deleted, lots deleted at once, forwarded, saved, etc. They use this attention data to recommend specific content to users and hopefully mitigate information overload.

next week - attensa for outlook 1.5. Includes predictive ranking via river of news.

also rolling out an RSS Appliance. Plug and play. What is this? Need to follow up. Rich client or ajax interface, available July. This is the first of several modules in enterprise suite. several fortune 500 companies utilizing it. craigslemonade.typepad.com - Craigs blog.

Netvibes

Tariq arrived just in time to do the demo of netvibes - see techcrunch posts here. Site is here. based in london and Paris. I like the new tagline - “(re)mix the web.

4 million users.

They are looking for developers to create modules for netvibes.

My observation: netvibes is kicking ass right now. People like it because its very, very fast.

These guys have serious momentum.

Stumbleupon

I use this service. Its a top firefox plugin, 939k registered users in 139 countries. 2.2m stumbles per day, more stats on photo, he changed slide too fast but I took a picture.

stumbleupon.com/ads to see ad information.

Marshall Kirkpatrick on TechCrunch: Ray Ozzie to replace Gates as Chief Software architect

There are a lot of people that are going to see this as very, very good news. It looks like Ray is here to stay.

Om Malik has taken resigned from his position at Business 2.0, taken venture capital and is focusing on building out his GigaOm blog franchise. Nick Douglas broke the story after Josh Quittner (brilliantly) sent an email to Business 2.0 staff notifying them of Om’s plans. Om was forced to announce early, which he did tonight on his blog.

Congratulations, Om. I look forward to hearing the details and watching you kick ass in the new world we’ve found ourselves in.

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