1998 $1K Competition Public Summaries

These summaries are Copyright 1998 the respective teams. For further information, please contact the person listed in each summary.

Achilles Transit Solutions
Stallion Yang, sta_ya@mit.edu
Achillies Transit Solutions will improve the transportation of goods in the urban environments. Our first product aims to improve current delivery platforms used by major delivery services such as FedEx, UPs, DHL and U.S. Postal Service.

Activespace
Stephan Morais, smorais@mit.edu
Activespace will offer a web-based environment for building information management applications.

AdsOnCars
Mark Davies, mdavies@mit.edu
AdsOnCars would give financial assistance for purchasing cars through advertising.

AppRental Inc.
David Do, ddo@mba1999.hbs.edu
AppRental Inc. (ARI) will leverage existing platforms for applications rental and focus on developing software that will be rented to under served and profitable segments.

Archizon.com
Alfonzo Leon, alfonzo@mit.edu
Our online and offline service provides a comprehensive listing of national and foreign titles in architecture and related fields

Aristotle
John Burke, jburke@mba1999.hbs.edu
Aristotle is the ultimate personal, portable, productivity assistant. Simply put, it remembers, categorizes and makes available to you anywhere in the world, all of the data that makes your everyday computer life work smoothly—passwords, user names, bookmarks and lots more. It treats your data like are YOUR data and ensures it is available to you anywhere and everywhere. You can do anything you want without being tied to any specific browser, system or location.

BarnacleNet
Christine Southworth, southsea@mit.edu
BarnacleNet is an offshore ISP, providing high speed internet access to boats.

BillOptimizers
Erin Hoffer, ehoffer@mit.edu
BillOptimizers reduces the bills of commercial clients who purchase phone services, shipping services, credit and travel services by profiling purchasing data and optimizing customer profiles against market offerings.

Biotronics
Brian Russell, brussell@mit.edu
Noninvasive sleep monitoring system specifically targeted at preventing SIDS-Sudden Infant Syndrome.

Boxers
Mani Mahjouri, mahjouri@mit.edu
A specialty clothing store.

CDI Software
Christian Manasseh, chman@mit.edu
CDI (Collaborative Distributed Integrated) Software is a software venture for creating a collaborative software platform for use during distributed design in the automotive, aerospace and construction industries. CDI Software will be extending prior MIT research in computer supported collaborative work in the distributed design domain by leveraging its in house experience in collaborative software and distributed design. Data from Boeing and Ford indicates distributed design is a high-leverage cost driver and the software permitting distributed design is increasingly being treated as high priority technology investment in most design divisions.

College Knowledge Inc. (CKI)
Mani Mahjouri, mahjouri@mit.edu
College consulting.

Components Exchange
Ye Wang, yewang@mba1999.hbs.edu
Web-based software programming service provider

Culture Builders
Erin Hoffer, ehoffer@mit.edu
Culture-Builders will launch a new breed of consulting services to enable CEOs and senior executives to build winning cultures in their organizations.

Custom Art Tiles
Ilya Mirman, imirman@shore.net
Custom Art Tiles (CAT) gives residential contractors and do-it-yourselfers access to high-end art tiles at competitive prices. CAT's strategically located kiosks in Home Depot, Sears, and other distribution points across the nation will enable customers to order custom-printed tiles, containing any image desired, including art masterpieces, scanned photographs, and line art. The digital files are then routed directly to CAT's high-technology facility for rapid tile production.

DataVault
Yates Daniel, yates@fas.harvard.edu
DataVault is an online back-up utility.

DelicaTags Inc.
Charles Horton, carolus@mit.edu
An innovative new way for shops to improve customer service at almost no cost.

Desert Island Discs
Gary Tarpinian, gtarpini@mit.edu
Your desert island disc is the collection of music that you would want with you if you were stranded on a desert island. DID is a company dedicated to providing desert island discs to music fans -- their favorite songs made-to-order in the sequence and the format they want.

EasyFax
John Cochran, jcochran@mit.edu
EasyFax will create easy-to-use internet products capitalizing on the convergence of communications technologies. We will initially focus on the fax market.

eFrenzy.com
Soon Loo, yloo@mba1999.hbs.edu
An integrated online-classified engine.

eMoves
Tracy Lawrence, tlawrence@mba1999.hbs.edu
eMoves provides fast, efficient, and free on-line services for people moving into new homes.

eprotect
Desmond Lim, drlcs@mit.edu
Have you ever felt you paid too much to protect your investments? We have the solution!

Events.com
Ricardo Ambrose, ambrosia@mit.edu
This is a web-based service devoted to solving all the issues that abound when trying to plan for an event. It provides a one-stop central location for doing everything from finding entertainment and catering for food, to renting an event site and having a current, updated list of invitees.

Executive Assistant
April Griffin, bale@mit.edu
Executive Assistant is an on-line contact database. It is compatible with existing PIM formats (Outlook, Palm Pilot, etc.) It will allow professionals on-the-go to maintain their contact network from anywhere in the world. Its' unique advantage is to offer easy card and gift purchasing, organizing, and mailing.

FileViewer
Ilya Mirman, imirman@shore.net
FileViewer is a portable device for rapidly viewing the text or graphics content of a computer file. As our library of digital media grows, keeping track of what file is on what media, on which disk, etc. becomes difficult. Even if we record the name of every file on a ZIP drive's label, we may still forget what each file actually is. Consequently, we often need to view the contents of a file, to refresh our memory. Currently, to view the file contents, one typically has to find a computer, power it up, wait, make a few clicks, etc. A much more efficient alternative is a device that is precisely tailored to viewing digital media: exhibiting instant turn-on, a color display, a simple user interface, small size, and low cost.

FindIt!
Paul Blase, pblase@mit.edu
FindIt!- An object-locating system for use in multi-room environments.Every year a countless number of items are either lost or misplaced in the home. Typical items include a wallet, key-ring, and glasses. Everyday people frantically search for their car keys as they leave the house. They look under the couch, on counters, under pillows, and often spend hours retracing their steps. They become obsessed with winning the game of finding what is lost in their own homes or apartments. If and when they find the items they vow to be more careful, "I will always place my car keys on the kitchen counter." In reality this is never the case - and the search continues. With our new locating device the consumer will find these small but essential items instantly. Over the course of a year we will save you numerous frustrating hours spent looking for that item that you thought you put "right on the table."

Fish
Reinhard Goethert, rkg@mit.edu
Development of a method for evaluation, visualisation and communication of building remodelling options, for use with laptops and digital cameras.

FlashMall
Brent Ryan, bdr2@mit.edu
FlashMall creates a dynamic new interactive approach to online retail.

gChip
Soon Loo, yloo@mba1999.hbs.edu
With gChip, you will never run out of milk again. Imagine a mechanism which will automatically know when you have run out of milk or other grocery items. Then all by itself, it will schedule same or next day delivery of the items to you. Welcome to gChip.

GSV Technologies
Kush Gulati, kush@mtl.mit.edu
GSV Technologies will produce, market, and sell a line of innovative products that will leverage advanced electronics technology for fitness and sports applications.

GlobalPeople
Jeff Smith, jpsmith@mit.edu
Opening the world to your organization...

Grease Monkey/3-D Service Manuals
Tyler Worden, worden@mit.edu
The maintenance and repair manuals for most products are a burden to produce and keep up to date. In addition, the information contained in them is difficult to understand, and difficult to navigate. GreaseMonkey Enterprises (GE) will provide the next generation service manuals which will be electronic in nature, connected to the Internet, and will combine 3-D geometry, a VRML browser, and web content. The content will be interactive in nature allowing one to navigate to a specific 3-D component, select it, and be presented with media rich content specifying all related information on maintenance and repair, links to potential vendors, and helpful tips. The service manual will be accessible with the use of any laptop or desktop PC, and can be used connected to or separated from the Internet.

h2 Automotive Renovation
Charles Horton, carolus@mit.edu
h2 Automotive Renovation will completely change the way you look at buying an inexpensive car: "I wanted a reliable car with zero miles on the mechanicals and a four-year warranty. So I bought a used car from h2 Automotive Renovation."

Health Care Managers
Winnette McIntosh, winnmac@mit.edu
The idea behind this business is to consolidate all of the services used by health care industry on a single website that can be accessed by subscribing health care professionals, insurance providers and patients.

HealthNet
Zhongwei Wu, wuz@mit.edu
HealthNet is a practice management service provider to physician offices. HealthNet will offer low cost of entry and convenience to the small offices, while giving large offices and hospitals scale and data management abilities.

HelpingHand
Jeff Smith, jpsmith@mit.edu
Providing money for our schools…

Hospinet
Rami Habal, rhabal@mit.edu
There are gross inefficiencies in the healthcare industry. Hospinet will get rid of these inefficiencies by establishing itself as the leading internet healthcare portal, "one-stop-healthcare-shop". Hospinet will provide a wide range of value added services to its customers and partners.

InforMine Corporation
Scott Hambley, scott@outmarket.com
InforMine Corporation utilizes proprietary and off-the-shelf "intelligent agent" technologies to recognize, mine and organize into useful form, relevant unstructured information from a variety of sources including the Internet.

Institute de Bon Vivant
Erin Hoffer, ehoffer@mit.edu
Institute de Bon Vivant will provide unique travel experiences to people with keen and varied interests. IBV leverages one-of-a-kind relationships with partners and providers in cultural domains such as food and wine or architecture to deliver customized and memorable vacation experiences. These relationships are mutually beneficial in that IBV increases our partners' visibility, brings them more direct customers and enhances their prestige. IBV obtains personalized non-standard services for our clientele providing an "insiders view" of a region or cultural domain.

Intelligent Communications
Jim Anderson, jha3@mit.edu
Intelligent Communications will strive to provide low cost, high quality long distance, cellular and paging services. The goal of the company is to provide these communications services at half the cost of other well established telecommunications providers.

i-Protocol
Chi-Pong Kwan, cpkwan@mit.edu
i-Protocol serves the biomedical research community and vendors of scientific products by developing web-based services to help disseminate information on research protocols and products more efficiently among researchers worldwide.

Just in Zyme
Eudean Shaw, eudean@mit.edu
Just in Zyme generates genes that produce novel materials in crops. These materials include biodegradable plastics, adhesives, sweeteners, fat replacements for the food industry, and materials for electronic components.

Killer App-etite
Russell Epstein, erussell@mit.edu
A breakthrough concept in food service in Boston, for all those hungry professionals who deserve more than what they currently are offered.

Learning Advantage
S. Jason Salfen, jsalfen@mit.edu
Expanding educational opportunities…

MT International
Deepak Sharma, dsharma@post.harvard
MT International is a global firm offering a new generation of low cost, high quality, rapid turnaround, medical transcription services.

Marketing by Markets
Ryan Dorris, dorris@fas.harvard.edu
Marketing by Markets seeks to design and run web-based electronic markets on behalf of large companies in order to efficiently and automatically aggregate consumer opinion on a wide range of products.

Mayhem Games
Jonathan Monsarrat, jonmon@mit.edu
Mayhem Games develops Java technology and content for Internet computer games. Our first product, Mystic Mayhem (www.mysticmayhem.com), based on proprietary technology, is a strategy/roleplaying game that has just shipped retail. Players portray a wizard or a warrior in a fantasy game world, populated by thousands of real people from anywhere on the Internet. The company's management team has a proven track record in Internet games, having founded and built Turbine Entertainment, a successful Internet game company that has won publishing deals with Microsoft and Sega.

Media Miner
Pengkai Pan, ppk@media.mit.edu
Media Miner aims to provide a unique personalized media service over the Internet and corporate Intranets. Using a well-established network infrastructure, we aim to help companies develop a one-to-one connection with each of their customers via emerging media technologies.

Micro Motive
Harrison Roberts, harrison@mit.edu
MicroMotive is a medical devices venture. MicroMotive's strength is in the development of novel minimally invasive surgical devices. Our launch product - an advanced tissue grasper - will reduce O.R. time and patient trauma, thus lowering hospital costs. The advanced tissue grasper will be entering a beta test phase with Doctors at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge in Q1 1999.

microEngine Corporation
Jonathan Protz, jmprotz@mit.edu
The microEngine Company will develop, manufacture, and market products based on MIT's power-MEMS technology to serve the power requirements of the portable electronics industry, as well as selected areas in the aerospace and defense sectors that require small, high energy density devices.

MicroStress
Ilya Mirman, imirman@shore.net
MicroStress will develop and sell a comprehensive suite of computer-aided tools for structural analysis of microelectronic components and subsystems. With a simple, intuitive interface, and a database of components, materials, and experimental results, MicroStress will put structural analysis at the fingertips of users not familiar with the complex Finite Element Analysis tools on the market today.

Mobility
Matthew Eichner, meichner@mba1999.hbs.edu
A mobile, wireless platform and service for delivering interactive audio content.

Mutual Funds for Morons
Harold Simansky, sharold@mit.edu
Mutual Funds for Morons (MFM) is a new type of mutual fund company that is specifically geared to the first-time investor. Dedicated to serving the customer, MFM will help individuals who have never invested before make the monumental step of moving their money from a saving account into stocks or bonds. MFM promises to be easy-to-use and understandable, all while providing outstanding returns.

myEscapade.com
Soon Loo, yloo@mba1999.hbs.edu
myEscapade.com allows a consumer to plan a perfect weekend easily. By having the consumer answers a few questions, myEscapade.com builds a consumer profile and customizes a weekend plan for the consumer – with all reservation and ticket purchases completed with a mouse click.

Natural Electric, Inc.
Gia Schneider, gia@mit.edu
The electricity generation industry is undergoing several fundamental changes due to political, market and environmental factors. Hydropower is one renewable energy source that has a huge potential, but is not always applicable due to conflicting land uses and associated environmental impacts. Natural Electric, Inc. has developed a novel technology that can extract the energy of large flows of moving water at low heads, thus avoiding the impacts asociated with conventional high head hydropower.

Natural Language Assistant, Inc.
Brad Waller, wbradw@mit.edu
Natural Language Assistant’s (NLA) unique combination of natural language processing and expert systems technologies enables users to have information intelligently extracted and/or autocategorized according to content.

Natural Soils, Inc.
Toni Albers, talbers@mit.edu
Natural Soils, Inc. has developed the C-3 in-vessel composting system for use by small businesses such as fast food restaurants, supermarkets and schools. This innovative technology will provide such businesses with a convenient method to significantly reduce waste costs while also eliminating the many environmental issues that are currently associated with waste disposal.

NetID
Weslynne Ashton, weslynne@mit.edu
NetID, a revolutionary authentication system for the Web

PMB
Manuel Rosso, rmanuel@mit.edu
PMB will be the first service provider capable of presenting and paying 100% of a consumer’s recurring bills.

Parable
Arthur Murakami, amuraka@mit.edu
Parable will revolutionize the printed media industry.

Personal Credit Managers
Winnette McIntosh, winnmac@mit.edu
Imagine being able to combine all those credit cards into a single card, make a single monthly payment, have a maximum limit that is the sum of all the limits on the individual cards. The Personal Credit Manager will do exactly that, and in addition, save money for the credit card holder by ensuring that applicable service and interest charges are minimized

PersonalIDy
Ilya Gildenblat, ilyag@mit.edu
PersonalIDy© aims to revolutionize the music industry by changing the way consumers, distributors and record labels interact. PersonalIDy's unique technologies will both broaden the consumers' audio experience and expand the market of the recording industry. The company will bring the entertainment industry into the 21st century by making it a more personal experience.

Pets A-Z
Travell Perkins, tperkins@media.mit.edu
The mission of Pets A-Z is to become the one stop shop for all things A-Z related to the care and well being of the nation's pets.

ProSeq
Roger Flugel, flugel@flugel.med.harvard.edu
ProSeq provides knowledge management services that accelerate the identification of genetic targets for drug discovery.

Project Online
Michael Li, mili@mit.edu
Project Online has pioneered a new class of software infrastructure that integrates enterprise-wide information systems and enables cross-organization collaboration through the Internet.

Rapid Vision Technologies
Amar Gupta, agupta@mit.edu
The cost of check processing has always been a heavy burden for banks, sometimes contributing as 55 percent of their total cost. Rapid Vision Technologies seeks to solve this problem by providing a total life cycle service from check processing to check clearance with our cutting edge patented technology. Our broad patent (US Patent #5633954) gives us the sole rights to the technology until 2014, which will serve as barrier to entry for any potential competitors. Furthermore, our prototype WinBank2000 was recently awarded a contract to be field-tested nationwide in Brazil with their leading system integrator, Integris. With theses competitive advantages, Rapid Vision Technologies is poised to capture a significant portion of this very promising and profitable market worldwide.

ReCreation
Robert Irie, irie@ai.mit.edu
ReCreation will be a global business that provides entertainment programs in which people create, enjoy, and interact, answering the need for creativity in the information age. We will focus on programs that encourage our customers to actively participate and create via multiple media and arts.

Remote Control
Erin Hoffer, ehoffer@mit.edu
Remote Control will provide customizable ratings for television and cable which customers download from the Internet. Remote Control's optional video filtering hardware enables customers to control television access based on their own ratings selections.

Remote Monitoring
Michael Falcon, mfalcon@mit.edu
Targeted at the mobile industrial machinery market (such as mining trucks, shovels, and locomotives), the remote diagnostics system provides continuous engine and control system diagnostics. It makes electronic engine information accessible on standard desktop or laptop computers. The system can be used to diagnose engine problems and perform maintenance, which will ultimately reduce equipment down time and improve serviceability.

Remote Solutions
Beau Tateyama, ueab@mit.edu
Our company would provide the technology and service to empower the average consumer to get the most out of his or her electronic devices at home such as TVs, VCRs, etc, by giving a means to easily program each device.

Seagull Inc.
Mila Getmansky, mgetman@mit.edu
Seagull Inc. provides the Internet-based information exchange service to college student communities and local business enterprises.

Sector
Adeyemi Oreoluwa, otech@mit.edu
Sector provides management consulting and performance monitoring services to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other development organizations, including newly-privatized state enterprises. Sector also creates and brokers public-private partnerships between NGOs and private sector firms seeking to enter developing country markets.

Serenity Systems
James Kao, jkao@mtl.mit.edu
Serenity Systems provides novel products and technology to improve conditions in work place environments.

Shalom.com
Avi Weiss, wavi@mit.edu
This company will provide a web site focusing on Jewish interests.

Social Gadgets, Inc.
Mac Chinsomboon, omac@chinsomboon.com
We intend to develop a small everyday/everywhere device (keychain) that allows for total wireless connectivity (proprietary protocol). The device allows the sending/receiving of messages when within proximity to one another and/or to a node repeater station (Internet connected) placed in high foot-traffic areas. These devices will grow to include personal information, ID, health information, virtual money, etc.

Sound Solutions
Beau Tateyama, ueab@mit.edu
Our company would provide the technology and service to empower the average consumer to get the most out of his or her electronic devices at home such as TVs, VCRs, etc, by giving a means to easily program each device. These devices would carry our technology within it.

SportLogic
Adam King, aking@mit.edu
Performance tracking systems for a variety of sports.

StockCasino
John Cochran, jcochran@mit.edu
Combining the excitement of a Virtual Casino with the services of a Finacial Institution.

Surplus
Paul Blase, pblase@mit.edu
Surplus - distributes and tracks coupons that maximize business profit and consumer benefit!Retailers spend billions of dollars a year on the creation, distribution, and tracking of coupons to differentiate their products, induce consumer purchases, and acquire more customer demand information. However, most coupons are wasted because of poor targeting and consumer indifference. For a coupon to be used, consumers must find the coupon, clip it, and remember to bring it with them at the time of the transaction. By creating coupons that are customized for individuals, a business is more likely to induce consumers to buy its products, find out more detailed consumer demand information, and capture more profits. Consumers would use more coupons if search and redemption costs were lower and if they were specifically for products which they valued.

Swivel Corporation
Randy Milbert, rmilbert@mit.edu
The market for bioinformatics software is expected to explode to $2.2 billion by 2004 even though the field is still considered to be in its infancy. That is because we now live in an age where pure supercomputing brawn is the choice method of problem solving as it often reduces research time by orders of magnitude over traditional research methods. For the first time, there exists a situation where biologists must rely almost entirely on sophisticated software tools but are unable to implement these tools themselves.

TRITECH
Charles Howard, howardk@mit.edu
TRITECH, an IT consulting and recruitment firm, trains and markets people for information technology jobs, providing them with the technical and analytical skills demanded by companies.

Tetrawave
Catherine Campaigne, ccatheri@mit.edu
Tetrawave will develop an electronic book device and content distribution system.

The Comparator
Mark Davies, mdavies@mit.edu
the Comparator is an online personal purchasing assitant.

The High-Tech Herd
James Geshwiler, jgesh@mit.edu
The CowChip will be a quickly and simply injected subcutaneous microchip that replaces livestock ear tags, tattoos and branding. It will provide faster, more detailed identification data to farmers, ranchers, and other livestock managers than traditional tracking methods, which have long been used for breeding, feeding, management, disease control and food safety. Microchips also are currently used to identify a variety of animals-from house pets to racehorses-so that they can be returned to their owners when lost or stolen.

The Information Framework
Elliot Shmukler, eshmu@fas.harvard.edu
The Information Framework presents a new organizational paradigm for Internet content that enables easy content searching and retrieval.

The PaintJug Venture
Mark Scott, mscott@mit.edu
The 400 million one gallon paint cans sold each year will become a thing of the past. This 100 year old metal can design will join the old one quart cardboard oil container as an example of obsolete packaging that fails to meet demanding customer expectations. The PaintJug, the result of an intense customer focus design process, is a new all plastic on gallon container. It is clean, neat, and user friendly. Screw drivers and hammers will no longer be painting tools as people easily open and close the PaintJug's patented lid. The PaintJug's patented drip free spout directs paint where you want it instead of down the side of the can. When people go to the basement to open old paint they will find it as good as new in the PaintJug and not congealed and contaminated by rust and flakes.The PaintJug presents visionary paint manufacturers with the opportunity to clearly differentiate their products, improve customer satisfaction, and significantly grow share and profitability in the $6 billion architectural coatings market.

ThreeSixty
Joel Rosenberg, jrose@mit.edu
ThreeSixty will be a non-profit get-out-the-vote organization for students in Massachusetts. It will encourage participation by identifying and researching issues of student concern, educating students about issues and candidates, mobilizing university administrators and professors as advocates of students and student participation, and organizing issue campaigns that result in real improvement to students' lives. The internet will be a major tool for education and organization.

Trans-Atlantic Technologies
Francesco Caselli, cfrances@mit.edu
Most of U.S. high-tech start-ups focus on the domestic market and only 15% look at Europe during the first 2 1/2 years of their existence. Early international diffusion of new technologies through preliminary agreements allows start-ups to generate an additional income stream, to expand their customer base and to increase shareholder value. Large European companies can face the global competition better with an earlier access to US cutting-edge innovation. Start-ups however do not have the visibility or resources enough to approach them. We will support start-ups in their first steps towards the international markets through our dedicated teams in the United States and in Europe.

TryItOnline.com
Dingli Chen, dingli@mit.edu
TryItOnline seeks to make On-Line Apparel Shopping a major distribution channel for apparel retailers by providing software that will personalize and assist the consumer's shopping experience.

U & I Telecom, Inc.
Mac Chinsomboon, omac@chinsomboon.com
Licenses telecom services for small and medium group branding. Similiar to credit cards that are branded to certain markets and institutions, these would be telecom services.

VDR/Virtual Dressing Rooms
Tyler Worden, worden@mit.edu
U.S. on-line retail sales are project to reach $10 billion in 1998, of which only a fraction ($435 million) is attributed to clothes sales. In addition, only 7% of those that are online have actually made a purchase on the internet. The challenge that faces retail sales on the internet is converting lookers to buyers, especially in the clothing industry. To increase the look-to-buy ratio in the apparel industry, retailers must enhance the sensory experience. By providing a 3-D virtual human figure that is a digitized representation of the consumer, the online shopper will have the ability of “trying on” various garments to determine fit, and by working in a 3-D virtual world will see how the outfit would look on his/her body. Our company will provide the technology to create an accurate 3-D virtual representation of the consumer’s body shape, provide virtual on-line dressing rooms where the consumer can mix and match garments from various stores, enhance the shopping experience through visual feedback on potential look, and lastly determine accurate sizing for appropriate fit. This enhanced experience will generate additional sales, of which a small portion will be credited to the use of our virtual dressing rooms.

WebMapper
Niranjan Kundapur, kundapur@MIT.EDU
WebMapper's Geographic Targeting Technology (GTT) will enable portals and commerce sites to deliver localized content unobtrusively.

WorldWideSports
Richard Powell, rpowell@fas.harvard.edu
WorldWideSports will redefine the sports recruiting process throughout the world. Players will gain incredible exposure to a world market, while coaches will save thousands in time and money.

Yo! World
David Park, dpark@alum.mit.edu
Yo!World will rapidly create and grow an interconnected, global discussion network that: 1) helps participating Web sites overcome the critical mass problem associated with discussion forums, and 2) enables registered members to participate in vibrant online discussions that span a wide variety of topics.

YourTV
Joao Seixas, jseixas@mit.edu
Our company intend to revolutionize the way people watch Video and TV.

zclock
Chinedu Echeruo, cecheruo@mba2000.hbs.edu
Zclock.com provides the "scientifically correct time" to the general public.

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