OutblazeVideo

OutblazeVideo is a white label hosted social media service for web sites. It enables a turnkey, user-centric audio visual content storage, manipulation, retrieval and delivery engine on the client's web site. The customizable interface makes it suitable for any client brand. The content indexing and search capabilities allow sharing of user contributed content across the Internet. End users upload a variety of digital video, sound, and image media, which are all instantaneously rendered to Flash format for website publication and sharing.

First released at the end of 2006, OutblazeVideo offers white label Web based multimedia editing and sharing to media companies and portals. It is delivered as a service, enabling operators to deploy and brand a suite of sophisticated "Web 2.0" multimedia and sharing tools for their users. It is successfully tapping the growing popularity of user generated content and social networking.

Since the product resides on a central server, no installation or downloading is required, and both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are supported. All aspects of the Flash version to which input is converted can be fully controlled to create an original, personalized showcase. Whether the end product is a simple slideshow or a motion clip, the rich features of the editing tools allow any user to manipulate layered media, animated slide elements, photo and text effects, transitions and soundtracks.

The first deployment of the service can be found at the official online home of Hello Kitty (ハローキティ), www.sanriotown.com. The direct link to SanrioTown's Dream Studio in beta is http://video.sanriotown.com

EditGrid

This online product employs a powerful core technology, Real-time Update (RTU), to enable multiple users to access and edit the same spreadsheet in real time. Its most striking feature is that users can tabulate and model real-time data collected through the Internet for ongoing live analysis and treatment.

A rich array of innovative features exploits the Web in order to provide interoperability capabilities not available to users of regular desktop spreadsheets. In particular, EditGrid’s technological edge allows the aggregation, formulation and modelling of live data. It is the first spreadsheet product to combine powerful collaborative features with interoperability, as evidenced by the comprehension API layer and the integration with services from many sources such as, for example, www.salesforce.com and ThinkFree Office.

EditGrid launched its first public beta in April 2006 to wide acclaim among personal users, and went out of beta in February of the following year. Currently, more than 30,000 registered global users enjoy its free service. There are also more than 40 organizational subscribers and sales continue to grow rapidly. The company also positions EditGrid as a valuable integration and partnership opportunity and this has further enabled it to penetrate such markets as Japan and Korea. Large clients using EditGrid under licence include Reuters and IBM.

This unique software-as-a-service is being successfully managed towards profitability by a small and aspirational young team with a strong engineering focus.