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The startup pitches follows the keynote address. And there were plenty of pitches and it was good that members of the audience did manage to see the demos in the common area before hand else the pitches may be too much to absorb.

gothere.sg

gothere.sg is a simple mapping and directions service. Registered as a partnership with 3 people and the live site is 3 months old. Previous knowledge from interacting with the developers points to a development length of about 3 months which I guess was part time.

The site was fast and the presenter stated it was their priorty that the site be speedy, with good user experience and simplicity was key. The demo consist of a simple search from point A to point B, via train, bus and car. With the car directions having a ERP avoidance feature. Sweet.

Scratone

Scratone is simple product. But I believe the technology behind it is not that simple. In short it is a service that allows anyone to upload a background music, add a voice or a speech, and it will render a hip-hop style of voice ringtone.

This meet the need for professional music in a short time. Why ringtone? People uses ringtone to express individuality and to exploit creativity.

The presenter, Simon Wun is a musician and computer science major. The engine behind scratone is AutoDJ and it seems to be a A*Star project. And he did made a really interesting comment:

Government wants to encourage creativity, but creative people are not interested in politics and are rebellious.

Homespace.sg

Homespace.sg should need no much introduction. They too presented in the previous barcamp event. They are a pro-consumer, map based search engine. The latest feature to be added on their side, according to Vinod, is a price trend of recent transaction of similar units in a selected area. Useful for buyer or seller to make informed decision.

In addition, they are able to list amentities details in a particular neighbourhood to the end user as there are property agents who list their properties with simply: View to Offer.

Widgeo.us

Widgeo.us also do not need much introduction. They launch their service, again, in the previous barcamp event.

Their service cannot be easily described but I do my best. A unified communication platform whereby the user can be communicate by the medium of his choice without limitation of which ever different meduim that the other party is using. And when meduim is concernt, it means email, the different instant messaging services, SMS, the different social network messaging system and of course twitter.

In short:

Putting the power of communication back to the user

And Rid and Uzyn used this pitch to plug for their upcoming 24hours hackathon. Sign up an account at their site to find out more.

Phlook.com

Phlook.com is a photosharing site. Their values lies in their story boarding feature, where users can upload pictures into albums and use the pictures to be arranged as a story. The story can then tells the experience of the photographer or the entities in the pictures.

In addition, Phlook.com also have a zoom in feature, for those high resolution pictures.

This round up part one of 5 pitches. Do check out the next 5 startup pitches.