PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 17 -RawSugar ( http://www.rawsugar.com ) today announced that it will launch its innovative web directory publishing service at the prestigious DEMO conference ( http://www.demo.com ), the premiere showcase for the technologies of tomorrow. DEMO 2006 will take place February 6-8 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Throughout its 15-year history, DEMO has been a launching pad for many of the world's most important new technologies, such as Java, TiVo, and the Palm Pilot. Thanks to its unrivaled reputation for attracting technology's best and brightest, DEMO has become a top-priority event for industry executives, media and investors, all of whom attend DEMO looking for technology's household names of the future.
"Over the past 15 years, DEMO has hosted over 1,000 companies that have launched the technologies of the future, many of which would be hard to imagine living without today," said Chris Shipley, executive producer, DEMO 2006. "We selected RawSugar from hundreds of applicants, because the company has developed a solution that meets the growing need to keep the Web navigable and useful as it continues to expand. In a crowded market, RawSugar's technology is uniquely effective, and it has the potential to change the way we use the Web."
"It's an honor to be participating at an event that has introduced so many landmark innovations to the world," said Ofer Ben-Shachar, CEO of RawSugar. "With the amount of information published on the Web growing at an explosive rate, existing search and organizational tools aren't scaling to keep that information usable. RawSugar's technology has the potential to revolutionize how people manage information on the Web and DEMO, with its audience of industry experts and visionaries, is the perfect place to introduce the world to our vision."
About DEMO 2006
The annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring and U.S. Robotics, helping them secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com .
About RawSugar
RawSugar enables anyone to easily create, organize and publish hierarchical directory of recommended and annotated URLs, and build a community around shared interests. RawSugar's technology provides guided (faceted) navigation and search for each directory and for all RawSugar directories combined. Guided navigation and search is proven by companies such as, shopping.com to be the easiest way for people to find/discover information. Bloggers and website authors can add RawSugar guided search for their own blog or Website. For more information, visit http://www.rawsugar.com .
