Jtm-sv-unveilings

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS ON FRIDAY

We've lined up two of the most critical non-profit ventures on the cutting edge of journalism's future for back-to-back half-hour breakout presentations on Friday morning. Beat the traffic and arrive early -- we'll give you breakfast.

• At 8:30 a.m., Bill Allison of Sunlight Labs/Sunlight Foundation:

http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-topics-sunlight

• And, at 9 a.m., Fabrice Florin (or a colleague) at NewsTrust:

http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-topics-newstrust

OTHER UNVEILINGS

Several other NewsTools2008 sponsors and participants are ready to unveil innovations in journalism or public-interest communication. Here are some we know about:

• Eduardo Hauser’s DailyMe.com is just emerging from a public beta, with new leadership from an old Yahoo hand, asfasfasdf. A NewsTools2008 sponsor, he’ll be talking about it during lunch on Thursday. http://www.dailyme.com

• Richard Anderson’s tech team is feverishly working to have a demo of the new VillageSoup.com learn-share-shop community platform read to show during our Thursday reception and dinner. See: http://www.villagesoup.com/about/index.cfm

• The folks at FatDoor are in the midst of a name change (to Centerd.com) and relaunch of their real-neighborhood networking and news service. Dan Visnick will be around to tell us about it during Friday’s afternoon reception.

You can look in on their preview blog: http://28dots.blogspot.com/

• Hal Plotkin has set NewsTools2008 on Thursday as the place where he will unveil his http://www.reelchanges.org non-profit content-payment service. Catch up with Hal at: http://newstools2008.ning.com/profile/HalPlotkin

• Aki Hashmi and and Erik Sundelof will be talking about their beta news aggregation site:

http://www.allvoices.com

• Guy Kawasaki is passing along to folks a link to a beta project he’s excited about called AllTop. Here’s an example: http://journalism.alltop.com