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Adknowledge, Inc.

Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft

Brett Brewer, President & Director

Brett was the former Intermix Media president and director (Intermix was parent of MySpace and was sold in Q4 2005 for $673M). AdKnowledge is a three-year-old company with more than 20,000 keyword advertisers and hundreds of publishers. Since most online consumers spend 70% of their time outside of search, AdKnowledge focuses on traffic “outside of search” by inserting keyword listings into banners and emails.

ArnoldIT

Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, Microsoft

Stephen E. Arnold, President

The prominent technology consulting company has tremendous insight into developments in Silicon Valley that helps shed more light on "What's coming Next?" for the Internet and consumers.

Alibaba
(Yahoo! China)

eBay, Yahoo!, Google, Baidu, Microsoft

John Tsai, CFO

Alibaba is actively shaping the search and eCommerce market in what is expected to be the largest market in the world (China). The company's moves will have resounding implications for eBay, Yahoo!, Baidu, and Google as China becomes "key stone" in global eCommerce.

Answers.com

Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft

Bruce D. Smith, VP IR & Strategic Development

The leading reference company is providing a fresh alternative to commerce-driven searches, supplying factual information on research-based queries. The company currently supplies Google with its "Definitions" links.

Become.com Inc.

Amazon, eBay (Shopping.com), Overstock, Scripts (Shopzilla)

Michael Yang, Founder & CEO

Become combines unbiased product information / research with comparison search and eCommerce. The founder started MySimon in 1998 (later sold to CNET for $700m).

Blinkx, Inc.

Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft

Suranga Chandratillake, Founder & CTO

Blinkx is automatically and intelligently linking users to relevant information from anywhere and in any format: on the Web, in the news or on the desktop. It automatically and implicitly retrieves information, based on the content viewed by each user. This could have a large impact on the major portals/search engines.

BlueLithium, Inc.

Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft

Gurbaksh Chahal, Founder, Chairman & CEO

Based in San Jose, CA, BlueLithium challenges the legacy ways of doing business to help online marketers achieve extraordinary results. Combining a powerful one-two punch of one of the largest ad networks with superior targeting and optimization-on-the-fly technology, BlueLithium creates a unique site network for each advertiser that is customized to their marketing objectives. Reaching 100M unique users or 51% of the Web, BlueLithium delivers 6 billion impressions per month across more than 1,000 sites.

BuySafe, Inc.

eBay, Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, Overstock

Jeffrey E. Grass,  President and CEO

BuySafe is focused on increasing the velocity and magnitude of e-commerce by augmenting trust in sellers by buyers by providing bonded protection
on purchases. With this protection, less well-known sellers have viable options to sell their products off of major platforms like eBay.

ChannelAdvisor Corporation

eBay, Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, Overstock

Scot Wingo, President & CEO

CA specializes on advising large online sellers with managing their multiple online distribution options. This includes eBay, paid search, meta-shopping, and databases like Google Base. The CEO has tremendous insight into the view of the large eCommerce sellers.

Click Forensics, Inc.

Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft

Tom Cuthbert, President

Click Forensics is a leading search engine fraud detection company that is spearheading the self-defense of "click fraud" detection with three main
factors: Technical Attributes, Behavioral Attributes and Market Attributes. By having advertisers pool their click data, set up industry standards,
and set the format, Click Forensics is leading the way in combating search engine fraud.

comScore Networks

All Internet Companies

Gian Fulgoni, Chairman

One of the industry's leaders in Internet data and trend analysis, comScore helps capture what applications are gaining momentum and which companies are winning and losing in specific areas.

Digg

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, Newspapers

Jay Adelson, CEO

Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. Digg is revolutionizing how consumers conceive of the "front page" and digest news, by having users vote on the top stories of interest.

Feedster, Inc.

Google, Yahoo!, NewsCorp, AOL, Microsoft, Newspapers

Chris Redlitz, President

The company helps users harness the rich information available in the universe of RSS feeds, which includes blogs, traditional news services, e-commerce sites, and entertainment properties. Feedster's search engine scans the Blogosphere constantly, providing a fresh look at the more than 22 million sources it tracks. Feedster is revolutionizing how we digest real time news and discussion.

Indeed, Inc.

Yahoo!, Monster, Newspapers

Paul Forster, CEO

Indeed's innovative job meta -search technology is shaping the future of job classifieds. Combing thousands of sources (like Monster.com), Indeed provides one of the best ways for job seekers to scan the broadest inventory of job openings.

Inform Technologies LLC

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, Newspapers

Neal D. Goldman, Chairman

Inform is revolutionizing how people read news on the web, by providing thousands of news sources, including blogs, video. Its technology groups news stories into thousands of buckets, so one can easily connect and read news on any person, place, organization, topic, industry or product quickly, successfully, and easily right from the an article they're reading, or by utilizing a custom news channel you create, all for free.

Ingenio Inc.

Google, eBay (Skype), Yahoo!, Microsoft

Paul Manga, EVP

Ingenio is considered by many as the inventor of the "Pay per Call" advertising model which has been gaining momentum and should ultimately become one of the few business models (along with "Cost per Click" and "Cost per Action", in an advertiser's arsenal to target online / mobile consumers.

Kaboodle, Inc.

Amazon, eBay (Shopping.com), Overstock, Scripts (Shopzilla)

Manish Chandra, Founder & CEO

More than just a comparison shopping site, Kaboodle's seeks to make it easier to research and make decisions on the web by aiding in collecting, organizing, and sharing information as well as receive feedback on that information.

Kayak.com

Expedia, Sabre, Cendant, Travel suppliers

Steve Hafner, Co-Founder & CEO

Kayak is shaping the future of travel through meta-search which provide a broad spectrum of choice for consumers. The company is not a travel agent itself, but likens itself to "the Yellow Pages" for travel. The CEO was Executive Vice President of Consumer Travel at Orbitz.

Kewazinga

Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft

David Worley, Chairman & CEO

Kewazinga owns interactive technology that allows viewers to experience events / videos from multiple perspectives. Multiple patents have been secured already for their interactive technology for robust applications such as: sports, entertainment, distance learning, training, telecommunications and more.

LookSmart Ltd.

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft

Dave Hills, CEO & President

LookSmart is a revitalized PPC engine that has recently incorporated the essence of tagging with its Furl acquisition, and could have an important impact on the direction of the search industry and the major engines.

MercExchange

eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! (Overture), Google

Tom Woolston, Founder

MercExchange’s goal is to improve businesses through the application of new digital technologies, especially in networked environments. The company has licensed its patents to companies like Yahoo! (Overture) and uBid, but is currently in dispute with eBay on patent infraction.

Oxford University Press

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, Large Cap Media

Evan Schnittman, Vice President & Senior Director

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. It is the world's largest university press. It publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 4,800 people worldwide.

Participatory Culture Foundation

Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft

Nicholas Reville, Co-Founder

Video Bomb is a community site for people to bring together and share the best videos on the web. You can share interesting videos with a wide audience by posting, commenting and tagging videos on the site. Video Bomb is part of the Democracy Internet TV Platform.

PhoCusWright Inc.

Expedia, Sabre, Cendant, Travel suppliers

Lorraine Sileo, Vice President

PhoCusWright Inc. is an independent travel, tourism and hospitality research firm specializing in consumer, business and competitive intelligence. It is widely considered the authority in online travel dynamics & trends, providing insight to the future of the industry.

PIXPO Inc.

Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft

Ron Stevens, President & CEO

PiXPO provides content publishers with personal broadcasting "No Content Uploading Required" and content consumers with the ability to preview/stream "Live Preview" all media before downloading. The company also offers channel partners shared revenue through software subscriptions and rich media advertising. At the same time, PiXPO offers rich media advertisers targeting through specifically targeted online communities.

Pluck Corporation

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft

Dave Panos, CEO

Provides RSS, blogging, syndication and social search software and services. These services are directly transforming how consumers are searching, shopping, communicating, and digesting media.

PodShow, Inc.

Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, Apple, Music Labels, Google

Adam Curry, President &
Ron Bloom, CEO

The former founding VJ of MTV, now known as the Pod Father", is once again shaping how we digest music and media through innovative PodCasting.

Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA)

eBay, Google, Overstock, Yahoo!

Joe Cortese, Founder & Chairman & Jonathan Garriss, Executive Director

The Professional eBay Sellers Alliance is somewhat of a misnomer, as this group represents large sellers that look to sell their inventory across established and emerging platforms. Their size and power gives them the "ear" of large platforms, like eBay.

PubSub Concepts, Inc.

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, Newspapers

Constantine
‘Gus’ Spathis,
Chief Executive Officer

Shaping the future of news and information digestion and submission, PubSub is a matching service that instantly notifies you when new content is created that matches your subscription. Using its technology, PubSub is able to read reads over 23 million weblogs, more than 50,000 newsgroups and all SEC (EDGAR) filings, and notify users whenever a match is made.

RawSugar

Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft

Ofer Ben-Shachar, President & CEO

RawSugar is utilizing tagging to shake up the search paradigm by searching through directories, blogs and websites with human-powered, topic-driven navigation service. Previously, CEO Ofer Ben-Shachar founded NetDynamics, which was sold to Sun Microsystems in 1998.

Search Engine Marketing Professional Organiztion
(SEMPO)

Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft

Dana Todd, President & Kevin Lee, Chair Research Committee

Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization is a non-profit group comprised of over 400 members and sponsored by Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google. The organization provides a voice for the industry and closely researches the current trends and outlook for search marketing across all platforms.

Shore Communications Inc.

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, Large Cap Media

John Blossom,
President

Shore is a leading research and advisory service focusing on professionally-oriented content and the technologies that enable its value in enterprise and media markets. Shore is unique in its focus on understanding not just content or technology or users but the complex interplay between these forces that create value in today's content marketplace.

SideStep, Inc.

Expedia, Sabre, Cendant, Travel suppliers

Rob Solomon, CEO

SideStep is shaping the future of travel through meta-search which provide a broad spectrum of choice for consumers. Each month, more than 4.7m consumers turn to SideStep which has alliances with travel marketers like JetBlue Airways, Continental Airlines, Hyatt Corporation, Orbitz, etc. The CEO has over 6 yrs of experience as the general manager of the Yahoo! Shopping Group.

Simply Hired, Inc.

Yahoo!, Monster, Newspapers

Gautam Godhwani, CEO

SH's innovative job meta-search technology is shaping the future of job classifieds. Combing thousands of sources (such as Monster.com), Simply Hired provides one of the best ways for job seekers to scan the broadest inventory of job openings.

Smarter.com (Mezi Media, Inc.)

Amazon, eBay (Shopping.com), Overstock, Scripts (Shopzilla)

Talmadge O'Neill, Co-Founder

Smarter uses an unbiased system to compare prices on products from hundreds of different merchants, for the best price. Smarter.com carries more than 1000 online merchants, including Circuit City, Crutchfield, Buy.com, B&H and many other popular online stores. Socialization by other Smarter.com shoppers help other shoppers by reviewing merchants and rating products to make more informed choices.

Thomson Gale

Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, Large Cap Media

John Barnes, EVO Strategic Business Development

Thomson Gale™ (www.gale.com), a business of The Thomson Corporation, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The company is known for its reference content and organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles. The company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.

Vendio

eBay, Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, Overstock

Rodrigo Sales, CEO

Vendio's services enable merchants to reach consumers through the Web's leading marketplaces, manage their transactions, and profitably grow their businesses without having to hire additional staff or resources. Dealio, Vendio's new comparison shopping service, empowers consumers to find the best deals quickly and easily from respected merchants while shopping online.

Wink Technologies, Inc.

Google, Yahoo!, AOL, Microsoft

Michael Tanne, CEO

One of the leaders in tagging, Wink is a search engine that provides relevant and interesting results as found by people. Wink offers search from Google and applies Wink's PeopleRank technology to deliver sites that people think are the best for your search.