Charting a New Course
Panelists gave a thumbs-up to iCharts, which provides a platform for online charting.
"I think it's a very interesting idea, maybe because I spend too many hours slaving over Excel," said panelist Roelof Botha, a partner at Sequoia Capital.
"Anytime you can make something simple and easy, you've got a winner," said panelist Don Dodge, of Microsoft.
"ICharts is your YouTube for interactive charts," said Seymour Duncker, CEO of iCharts.
Also presenting Tuesday was Tingz, which offers tools and services to gather Web content and distribute it to digital devices and social networks. Cross-platform, shareable widgets are featured. Applications are enabled such as browsing of movie listings.
Another presenter, Emerginvest, analyzes emerging financial markets with its application. And products for managing e-mail were shown both on Monday and Tuesday.
On Monday, the TechCrunch crowd heard from Joshua Baer, CEO of OtherInbox, which provides a service intended as a cure for e-mail overload. The platform offers a free e-mail account that organizes newsletters, social networking updates, coupons, and receipts from online purchases. Users can find the most interesting items and ignore the rest.
OtherInbox helps e-commerce vendors send more targeted, relevant e-mails, Baer said.
Tuesday's e-mail technology presentation featured Postbox, a desktop e-mail application geared to help users spend less time managing e-mail. Cataloging everything in e-mail from text to Web links and pictures, Postbox provides a searchable platform and displays messages by topic.
Postbox connects to content from any e-mail account, said Sherman Dickman, a founder of Postbox.
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