Cozi is an American startup company, specializing in family software and online services. The company had 37 employees as of April 4, 2008, and is based in Seattle, WA. Cozi’s tag line is “Family Life. Simplified.”
Cozi was co-founded by Robbie Cape and Jan Miksovsky after the two of them left Microsoft. Most of the company’s employees worked previously at Amazon.com, Expedia, or Microsoft. The company’s first product was called Cozi Central and released on September 25, 2006, and includes a family calendar, shopping lists, family messaging, and a photo collage …

Synthasite is a browser based Ajax website creator with an extra collaboration enabling feature. It is a mix between a wiki creators like PBwiki and MindTouch and website creators Weebly, Sampa and SiteKreator. Synthasite lets you create your own website with WYSIWYG editing and drag and drop multimedia features. It offers a “digg this” button for your articles and videos, a flickr search button and a YouTube embedder. There are also drag and drop HTML and plain text fields, labels and images. Synthasite also offers file management, component libraries, …

Dropbox is a storage application and service operated by Evenflow, Inc. The service enables users to store and sync files online and between computers. Dropbox has a cross-platform client (Windows, Mac and Linux) that enables users to drop any file into a Dropbox folder that is then synced to the web and the users’ other computers with the Dropbox client. Files in the Dropbox folder may then be shared with other Dropbox users or accessed from the web. Users may also upload files manually through a web browser. A …

imeem for Android helps people easily discover music that matches their tastes. The application enables users to create custom Internet radio stations by searching for specific artists, discover new music through personalized recommendations and listen to the most popular artists in the imeem community. The application also gives people the ability to purchase DRM-free downloads by linking to the Amazon MP3 application on Android.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) offered over the Internet by Amazon.com.
Launched in July 2002, Amazon Web Services provide online services for other web sites or client-side applications. Most of these services are not exposed directly to end users, but instead offer functionality that other developers can use. In June 2007, Amazon claimed that more than 330,000 developers had signed up to use Amazon Web Services.

Google App Engine is a platform for building and hosting web applications on Google Web Servers. It was first released as a beta version in April 2008. During its preview release, only free accounts are offered. According to Google, a free account can use up to 500 MB of persistent storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million page views a month. Google has also indicated its intention to eventually provide additional resources for a price. During the preview stage, Google App Engine tries to accommodate sudden …

Animoto is a web application that produces videos from user-selected photos and music.
Animoto analyzes the provided photos and music, automatically generating a trailer like video. According to Animoto website, its engine analyzes users’ photos and music and takes into consideration music’s genre, rhythm, and tempo to generate a video that takes into the song’s nuances. The site claims no two videos are ever the same.
As of Auguest 2008, 250,000 users in over 200 countries have registered with Animoto.com with 4 million videos and 50 million views.

The 2008 Crunchies is an annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. here’s the list of winners and the finalists.

dotCMS is a free software / open source web content management system (wCMS) for building/managing websites, content and content driven web applications. dotCMS includes enterprise CMS features such as support for virtual hosting, WebDav (beta) ,structured content, clustering and can run on multiple databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle, and is available as software that can be installed on a web server or via a hosting provider (dotMarketing is now offering the onDemand virtual hosting service for clients, and has also registered an image available via the Amazon Elastic …

Viewzi is a search engine company based in Dallas, Texas that is developing a highly visual experience that tailors the way users look at information based on what they are looking for. The search engine lightens the data overload by filtering and grouping results into several distinct interfaces. Users get over 16 “views” for their search including MP3 view (with a list of streaming audio you can play), album view (cover art and related musicians), plus specialized lenses for images, news, and more.