If at all possible tomorrow, I will try to zip down a few blocks from my home and catch a good portion of the PlugandPlay Expo at the PlugandPlay Tech Center, here in Sunnyvale. The show promises to feature three dozen of Silicon Valley's unknown startups looking to make a name for themselves, the second tier, if you will, when contrasted to all the noise around this week's TechCrunch40.I received a list of the companies looking to make a name for themselves with VCs, press and other entrepreneurs, and ... who ever said all the good names were taken in tech? Just check these out!
| 1) Lending Club 2) Broker Storage 3) Pixsy 4) Vator.tv 5) Ccube 6) PhotoCrank 7) ScreenerKey 8) Ceino 9) Planaroo 10) MyMagMedia 11) BlueGem Security 12) Souki.com 13) QbizTech | 14) SueEasy 15) TechDirt 16) Zephyr 17) Spigit 18) Geejo 19) UrNetlife 20) Paybl 21) Spokeo 22) Pollection 23) College Wikis 24) GetQuick 25) FuGen Solutions 26) Bizy | 27) Apsoftek 28) DataMash 29) StrayForm 30) Xpree 31) QClip Media 32) CopaCast 33) Zipidee 34) Gigya 35) Twiki 36) UserZoom 37) Moowee |
Some of the companies listed above are, in fact, so brand new that their Web sites aren't even live.
Depending on when I can break away from the office, and other priorities, I hope to give you an update tomorrow and see if any of these hard to pronounce names will soon become household names. And if not, it's always a lot of fun to surround myself with people even geekier than me. For more on the conference, check out their Web site.