Are you Under the Radar?

By Dave Winer on 1/5/07; 10:32:13 AM.

I am part of the selection committee for the next Under the Radar conference, on March 23 in Mountain View, CA.  

My main responsibility is to help them find interesting companies with products in relevant categories that aren't very well-known.  

The goal of the conference is to help draw attention to those products, and help get them staffed and funded, and successful.  

Naturally, I wanted to blog about this, so we could get the idea out in front of Scripting News readers.  

They're looking for companies with products in the following eight areas: 

1. Organize - Tasks, Database, Project, Notes, Bookmarks, 

2. Collaborate - Groups, Wikis, Spreadsheets, Word Processing, File Sending, Document Management 

3. Track - Time, Expenses, Budgets, Accounting, HR 

4. Publish - Blog platforms, Web publishing, Feeds/RSS, Content Management 

5. Communicate - Email, IM, VOIP, Voice, web conferencing 

6. Create - Presentation Mngr, music, photo edit/manage 

7. Personalize - Desktop, Calendar, personal organizers 

8. Search - vertical, social, create your own 

How to proceed. If you know a company with a worthwhile product in any of these areas, one that isn't well-known, but has potential, please post a comment here, with a pointer to their website, and I'll pass them on to the people running the conference. Should be pretty interesting!