2012 Interactive Accelerator Finalist presentation videos presented by Dell.

SXSW Interactive Accelerator
2012 Finalists

More than 670 companies submitted their web-based products to the fourth annual SXSW Accelerator event. Competition was tough and we're extremely grateful for all of the great submissions we received. Congratulations to the Interactive finalists who showcased their products.

For a complete listing of the SXSW Accelerator winners please click here.

News Related Technologies

BuzzData
Toronto, ON
buzzdata.com
BuzzData is the best way to share and collaborate on spreadsheets and other datasets publicly with the world or privately with a team or across an organization. BuzzData gives your data a permanent home so you see how your data gets connected – with people, ideas, solutions and the bigger picture.

Funf Project
Cambridge, MA
funf.org
Funf, the Fun Framework for Mobile Sensing is an extensible sensing and data processing framework for Android devices developed at the MIT Media Lab. Funf provides an open source, reusable set of functionalities, enabling the grassroots collection, dissemination, and sense-making of rich data about individuals, their devices and their environment.

Ushahidi
Nairobi, Kenya
swift.ushahidi.com
Ushahidi develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping; tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. We're a disruptive organization that is willing to take risks in the pursuit of changing the way information flows.

Ad Glue
Sacramento, CA
MacerMedia.com
AdGlue is a revolutionary advertising platform. AdGlue advertiser’s instantly glue, or place advertisements, right next to the content they like. Those advertisements stay glued for 30 days. This simple idea empowers advertisers with the control they desire and rewards them with value they can actually see. AdGlue: engage advertisers.

Umbel
Austin, TX
umbel.com
Umbel empowers publishers, advertisers and agencies with a deep understanding of audience engagement by leveraging vast amounts of aggregated, real-time social data. The knowledge and insights Umbel provides to clients translates into more effective research, planning and execution of media placement activity.

LocalWiki
San Francisco, CA
localwiki.org
LocalWiki is the open-content, open-source effort to share the world’s local knowledge. In 2004 we started the Davis Wiki, an experimental project to collect and share interesting information about the town of Davis, California, editable by anyone, that soon became the most used media source in the city.

NowSpots
Chicago, IL
nowspots.com
NowSpots is a cloud advertising platform that lets marketers bring their advertising to life with real-time social content. Brands have become publishers, creating content to get noticed. NowSpots lets them bring this content into their banner ads to get more clicks, attract new followers, and extend their social reach.

Crowded Comics
New York, NY
crowdedcomics.com
Crowded Comics is democratizing the editorial cartoon — one punch line at a time — by pairing crowd sourced captions and opinions with professional, timely cartoons. We are putting the power of satirical public opinion into the hands of the people with our interactive, democratic, and even local, participant-driven forum.

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Sensecast
Bloomfield, NJ
sensecast.com
Sensecast empowers anyone to create touch-free interfaces for digital content using Kinect-like sensors. Our software not only drives interactive media in shared spaces but makes those spaces measurable with algorithms and reporting tools to gather privacy-conscious analytics anywhere.

FollowThis
Stamford, CT
followth.is
FollowThis was spawned from the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership program launched in 2011. The service uses Semantic Web technology to let users follow specific articles on the web for updates and related news items. It blows Google News alerts away.

BookBrewer
Boulder, CO
bookbrewer.com
BookBrewer makes it easy to create, publish and sell eBooksfor all major eReading devices and apps. Our new NewsBooks program helps journalists and news organizations monetize curated content and has recently been used by The HuffingtonPost and The Denver Post. BookBrewer is proudly bootstrapped in Boulder, Colorado.

Social Media and Social Networking Technologies

IB5k
San Francisco, CA
ib5k.com
Correlate is an analytics and machine learning platform for building flexible applications around domain specific data. Working with our initial partner, the US House of Representatives, Correlate helps them understand what constituents are writing, tweeting or messaging about, where they're writing from and if they do or do not support a Bill in all in real time. Based on our success in Congress we have expanded our application for use with major PR firms, brands, & non profit initiatives.

Hoot.Me
Austin, TX
hoot.me
Hoot.Me is a Facebook application that allows students to see what classmates are working on and collaborate by posting questions, group video conferencing, doodling, recording videos, and typing math equations via smart chat. Tutoring is also coming soon for the times when teachers and classmates can’t help!

SceneTap
Austin, TX
scenetap.com
SceneTap utilizes anonymous facial detection technology and video-based software to effectively track customer analytics in a venue or particular space, including crowd density, male to female ratio, and average age. It offers an administrative tool for operators and a social network for consumers.

Vox.io
New Castle County, DE
vox.io
Vox.io is an easy way to make free calls to other vox.io users and convenient calls to any traditional phone from your iPhone or your browser of choice. Profile URLs that replace phone numbers, disposable URLs for on time conversations are just the beginning.

Votifi
Bethesda, MD
votifi.com
VOTIFI is a mobile polling and analytics company that helps people explore issues and build networks. Its technology discerns users’ points of view to facilitate peer-to-peer connections across political and social boundaries. By amplifying people’s voices, VOTIFI changes the dynamic between elected officials and the public.

Thirst Labs
San Francisco, CA
thirst.co
What are your friends talking about right now? Why are they talking about it? What does it mean? Thirst is a mobile app that understands status updates (from Twitter, Facebook, etc.) using our custom Natural Language algorithms to help you simplify, organize, and understand your social streams.

Banjo
Redwood City, CA
ban.jo
Banjo is a mobile application that taps into the biggest social networks to provide an on-the-ground view of what’s happening anytime, anyplace. Banjo creates a new level of social relevance by linking multiple networks so you can explore and discover the people and places you would otherwise miss.

Whodini
Los Altos, CA
whodini.com
Whodini is an enterprise software company based in Los Altos, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley. We have created a technologically groundbreaking product to help coworkers in large companies find the right person, right away, to get their business done.

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ReferralBonus
Concord, MA
referralbon.us
Recruiting agencies are expensive. Job boards cost hundreds upfront and result in hundreds of candidates with no quality filter. ReferralBonus automates the candidate matching process for our users from their 1st degree social network connections and incents them to refer friends essentially creating an army of outside talent scouts.

Geeklist
San Francisco, CA
geekli.st
Geeklist is the first Achievement based network of developers where they can show off their great work and find who built what, using what, with whom, where and when. Never before could you find out who gets credit for awesome work like I Scaled Twitter.

Verbling
Palo Alto, CA
verbling.com
Verbling lets language learners practice speaking with native speakers around the world through live video in the browser. For example, an American learning Spanish might be matched with a Spaniard learning English. They practice Spanish first and then switch to English when prompted.

Mobile Technologies

Condition One
Brooklyn, NY
conditionone.com

Condition ONE is a technology company developing next generation immersive video applications. Our flagship product is an embeddable immersive video player for the iPad, which we license to media companies and brands. Condition ONE creates powerful emotional experiences of being there.

just.me
Palo Alto, CA
just.me
just.me is building the world's first post-pc, post-web, mobile social networking software. Users can capture images, video, audio or text in any combination. The captured media can be saved, sent to others or published. A user only needs a smart phone and a contact list to enjoy all of the features.

Arqball
Charlottesville, VA
arqball.com
Arqball Spin lets you easily capture, author, annotate, and share 3D visualizations of objects using your phone or tablet. Our technology enables novel applications in online commerce, marketing/advertising, education, and scholarship. Think: YouTube for 3D!

Modo Labs
Cambridge, MA
modolabs.com
Modo Labs is a leading provider of mobile software and solutions for universities and enterprises. We are making mobile awesome for everyone with our Kurogo Mobile Optimized Middleware™, an open-source mobile application development platform designed for clean integration, exceptional platform-specific user experience, and a high degree of customizability.

5Degrees
Chicago, IL
5Degrees.us
5Degrees builds productivity software for mobile professionals, helping them manage relationships anywhere they are, whether on the road, in the office, and back at home. By combining contacts, communications, and activity planning into one remarkably simple application, we help make people more organized, efficient, and responsive.

Forecast
Austin, TX
Foreca.st
Forecast is a simple way to share where you're going. Instead of telling your friends where you are now with a check in, create a forecast to share where you'll be later. Forecast helps you connect with your real friends out in the real world. It's social networking that's actually social.

Meexo
San Francisco CA
meexo.com
Meexo is a mobile app for beginning and enhancing intimate relationships. Safe, smart and personal, it removes creepiness from traditional online dating and fully takes advantage of what’s unique about smartphones.

Toopher
Austin, TX
toopher.com
Toopher is your virtual key ring - vastly improving online security and eliminating fraud and identity theft by using your phone’s location awareness to add another layer of security to passwords - all without leaving your pocket. A rare security tool you’ll actually want to use, it’s the future of mobile... today.

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OneSchool
Menlo Park, CA
oneschool.com
OneSchool is a simple way for students to connect to the people, places, and things around them.

Zamp
Alpharetta, GA
zamp.co
Zamp is changing the way people trot the globe by introducing fellow travelers, providing accurate information and expert tips from frequent travelers, and giving service providers immediate, valuable feedback from their most important and influential customers.

NextDrop
San Diego, CA
nextdrop.org
NextDrop provides residents in urban India with accurate, timely information on the availability of unreliable water supplies, and enables water utilities to track the status of their distribution system in real time through a web-based dashboard.

Innovative Web Technologies

Trapit
Palo Alto, CA
trap.it
Trapit is a virtual personal assistant for web content, a content concierge. The company is born out of SRI’s CALO project, an ambitious DARPA-funded effort to create next-generation personal cognitive assistant that learns and adapts. Trapit delivers the most relevant and interesting web content personalized around your interests.

OneID
San Jose, CA
oneid.com
OneID is an entirely new way to easily and securely sign into websites and shop online. OneID eliminates the need for multiple usernames and passwords, puts users in complete control of their personal information, and protects against even the most sophisticated online security threats using advanced cryptographic technology.

Scrible
San Mateo, CA
scrible.com
Scrible changes how you read, research and share the web by enabling you to annotate web pages right in the browser and share them or save them to a personal Library in the cloud, where they're managed using tags and full text search. We’re supported by the National Science Foundation.

Prism Skylabs
San Francisco, CA
prismskylabs.com
Prism Skylabs' software & cloud service helps business owners leverage their existing video infrastructure to view, understand, and share their real-world places in ways that are beautiful, informative, and perhaps most importantly, ensure their customers’ privacy. The company is changing how businesses use video and how consumers experience physical spaces online.

Viztu Technologies
Cambridge, MA
viztu.com
Viztu Technologies is a leading provider of custom, multi-dimensional scanning and imaging solutions. Our first product, hypr3D, uses advanced computer vision tools to transform user-generated photos or videos into unique3D models that can view online, shared, downloaded, or even printed in 3D.

BrandYourself.com
Syracuse, NY
brandyourself.com
Brandyourself.com is the first DIY platform that makes it easy for anyone to take control of their own Google results. We make the Search Engine optimization process easy so anyone can ensure they have positive information on top, without having to pay a reputation firm to do it for them.

AgLocal
Overland Park, KS
aglocal.com
Remember the way your grandparents bought locally raised meats? Well you may, but you probably don't. AgLocal is here to reconnect us to that experience in a way only fresh technology can, with a web and mobile app powered marketplace built for consumer carnivores, businesses, and local farms!

ZeroDesktop
San Mateo, CA
zeropc.com
ZeroDesktop, Inc. has developed ZeroPC.com, a powerful Cloud Content management utility that connects users’ cross-platform web content for access using popular browsers on any device (desktops, laptops, Android and iPad tablets, smartphones). Users securely search, analyze, navigate, backup and share cloud content directly from ZeroPC cloud desktop without opening multiple browsers.

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Sourcemap
Cambridge, MA
Sourcemap.com
Sustainability depends on knowing the impact of our choices.Sourcemap.com is the only crowd-sourced platform for sharing the supply chains behind everyday products. Join 2 million visitors and nearly 7,000 individuals and organizations that use our free website to measure, improve and share the social and environmental impact of things.

Sizeseeker
Philadelphia, PA
sizeseeker.com
Sizeseeker is a virtual shopping experience that uses 3D cameras like Microsoft’s Kinectto scan user measurements and matches them to perfectly fitting clothing. Our platform helps clothing retailers bring the personalized; entertaining shopping experience they provide in-store to online customers

Offermation
Milwaukee, WI
Offermation.com
Offermation is a local online advertising solution for businesses to sell goods and services and pay cash to online publishers who create word-of-mouth sales by sharing Offers. Online publishers include news-sites, bloggers, and anyone using social media. Online advertising dollars therefore correlate to new customers and benefit the local economy.

Entertainment Technologies

WeVideo
Sunnyvale, CA
wevideo.com
WeVideo is redefining video editing. The Company offers a cloud-based video story telling platform that provides creative control and uniquely enables collaboration. WeVideo takes down the barriers of cost and complexity and offers the convenience of editing from your smartphone, tablet or computer. WeVideo makes video accessible to all.

Switchcam
San Francisco, CA
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Switchcam is a new video site for watching any event, from every angle. Using eye-witness videos on YouTube and other sites, Switchcam automatically reconstructs your favorite real life events like concerts and sports games so that you can share the event experience - even if you weren't there.

MoPix
Los Angeles, CA
getmopix.com
MoPix is creating the post DVD experience by empowering anyone who owns video content (from studios with a library of films to everyday content creators) with a framework to quickly and easily distribute, brand and sell their content in a socially-enriched digital marketplace.

Wemo Media
Venice, CA
wemomedia.com
Wemo Media is a next generation digital studio with a world-class team of Academy Award-winning artists, technology innovators and veteran execs from film, games and the web. This team is pioneering a new form of globally shared art and entertainment on the web. Their first product is theBlu.com.

Grandstand
Washington, DC
getgrandstand.com
Grandstand is a platform that transforms social and mobile actions (check-ins, likes, tweets, and SMS) into real-time social games and eye-popping data visualizations, allowing brands, agencies, retailers, stadiums, or any venue with a display to reward their crowd and enhance their overall visitor experience

Wonderverse
Burbank, Ca
wonderversegames.com
The marriage of Hollywood and Silicon Valley has been touted for years, now it's had a baby! Wonderverse is an entertainment company, born of traditional storytelling and social media. It’s premiering Kaijuland with a revolutionary ecosystem of technology allowing audiences to be active participants through games, comics, and television.

GooseChase
Ontario, Canada
goosechase.com
GooseChase is an intense scavenger hunt platform for the masses. You can easily join huge international games or create a custom hunt for you and your buddies. For us competitive people, in-app leader boards and photo feeds heat things up very quickly. It's bold, crazy and highly addictive.

Tugg
Austin, TX
tugg.co
Tugg makes it possible to put any movie on the big screen and enjoy it with your friends, family and community in the seats around you.

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Mowgli Games
Atlanta, GA
mowgligames.com
Mowgli is a gaming company based around a simple concept – connecting people through social creation. Our first game, Songster, enables players to create something real, something they can take outside the game – damn good music.

Muse Media
New York, NY
stylemusee.com
StyleMusée lets you discover fashion inspiration that's tailored to your style. As the fashion industry’s hub on Facebook, it relievesthe friction of search and discovery for 78+ million users who follow fashion,luxury and beauty pages by allowing them to customize image and video feedsfrom official industry sources.

Guerillapps
New York, NY
guerillapps.com
Guerillapps is a social game startup based in Manhattan. Our team of ex EA, Playdom & Lego game designers is developing social-mobile games to raise awareness and change consumer behavior in the health and suitability markets.

Health Technologies

Medify
Seattle, WA
medify.com
Medify is a leading provider of data-driven consumer health solutions. The service mines hundreds of millions of real patient experiences from medical research and makes them discoverable, trackable, and shareable. Using Medify, patients and families can turn insight into action based on research they can trust.

Jiff
Palo Alto, CA
jiff.com
Jiff is the Facebook of Health. The company provides a cloud-based platform that hosts your Circle of Health as well as your health and wellness apps, elegantly connecting you to your loved ones, to doctors and to the health care system.

BodiMojo
Cambridge, MA
bodimojo.com
BodiMojo.com is an integrated health management platform for teenagers accessible via web or wireless devices. We use proprietary algorithms, assessments and games to personalize health strategies and leverage existing teen social behavior of sharing, comparing and caring to drive positive body image, self-care, and compassion. The evidence-based platform allows for interoperability with other technology-based vendors, health services, and mobile device manufacturers to drive behavior change in a safe wellness environment.

CellScope
San Francisco, CA
cellscope.com
CellScope builds systems for at-home disease diagnosis using mobile phone cameras. The company is developing smart phone attachments for diagnosis of pediatric ear and skin infections, which cause over 30 million doctor visits annually in the US. Future CellScope products will leverage the technology platform for consumer skin care and interactive microscopy.

Simplee
Palo Alto, CA
simplee.com
Simplee is the best way to save money on medical expenses. Simplee connects directly with insurers to categorize and explain all medical, dental and HSA expenses in plain language, saving you time, money and stress. Simplee also offers benefit alerts, payment reminders, deductible updates, and electronic bill pay.

Beyond Lucid Technologies
Walnut Creek, CA
beyondlucid.com
Beyond Lucid Technologies is a health-tech startup that goes beyond the digitization of pre-hospital care records, offering First Responders situational awareness, robust logistical decision support, and real-time information for emergency incident management. BLT’s MediView™ platform is a cloud-and-client SaaS designed to make First Response safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective.

VitalClip
Pittsburgh, PA
vitalclip.com
You can't manage what you don't measure. Health enthusiasts lack an easy and reliable way to manage their health. VitalClip is creating an iPhone accessory that measures vital signs and adds context to deliver an instant and meaningful view of your well-being.

Ginger.io
Cambridge, MA
ginger.io
An MIT Media Lab spinoff and TechStars alum, Ginger.io provides a behavior analytics platform that uses big data from mobile phones to model user behavior and make inferences about health and wellness.

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Musical Health Technologies
iSingFit.com
Musical Health Technologies creates products that enable better care giving through music. SingFit debuted in the Apple App stores in December 2011 and features our patented Lyric Coach system so a participant does not need to be able to read or see to sing the words of a song perfectly.

Lumoback
Palo Alto, CA
lumoback.com
Lumoback is turning our bodies into the next platform for innovation, starting with a unique mobile solution for back health. We are committed to empowering people to live healthy lives.

Please see sxsw.com/music/startupvillage/accelerator/finalists for a list of all the Music Accelerator Finalists.