Dinosaur Robots and more!

Geek out to 5 Minute Live Demos, Q&A, Bar, Munchies and 200 of your favorite new tech buddies. 

We'll be mixing it up with a handful of some pretty interesting web tools, including how to rent  -- or put up for rent -- anything online, a search-within-video engine to help you better target ads; and a service to view that conference that you missed (or encode the conference you're holding); and an IT search tool that can index and digest data like a champ.   

And, we'll get hand's-on with the world's smallest computer and we'll meet Pleo -- the famous robotic dinosaur!   Touch him. He loves it.  Let him rub up against your leg.  He's got feelings too.   It's going to be fun!

Like I said -- it's a mix -- and it's all good.  

On tap: 

 
Zilok
Jeff Boudier, Vice President, Business Development
Zilok an online rental marketplace where anyone, individual or professional, can rent or offer for rent anything in a few clicks. http://www.zilok.com

Pluggd
Alex Castro, CEO / Founder
Pluggd has developed an innovative and proprietary platform for searching within video and contextually serving ads to online video in a non-obtrusive manner. http://www.pluggd.com

Soma Media
Romy Randev, CEO / Founder
Soma Media specializes in recording and distributing conference presentations via the web and DVD.  http://www.soma-media.com

Splunk
Kord Campbell, Splunk Evangelist
Splunk is inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. Splunk indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. If a machine can generate it - Splunk can eat it.  http://splunk.com 

And hands-on stuff from:

Ugobe & Pleo
Sarah Lefton, Marketing Manager, Online Strategy
Ugobe introduces "Pleo", its first robotic life form. Pleo is a one week old baby robotic dinosaur, and he comes with a social website where Pleo owners can connect, create and share behavior modifications for their robots, "plog" and post media about their pets. http://pleoworld.com  

OQO
Shane Bediz, Enterprise & Strategic Accounts
OQO invented the umpc, the smallest computer in the world that runs full windows XP or Vista w/ embedded cellular broadband.  "Best of CES 2007"  http://oqo.com 

As always, the 60-second Soapbox is yours for the taking!  Grab the mic and go!

Plus, Sun Microsystems invites you to learn more about their Sun Startup Essential Program -- and will be giving away a Garmin GPS unit to one lucky attendee.