Aggregate Knowledge Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner.Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Discovery Technology SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Aggregate Knowledge, the industry's first online Collective Discovery Service that emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. The AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. Aggregate Knowledge was hand picked by the AO Media editorial team based on a set of five criteria - innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz, and investor value creation. Deployed as a Web 2.0 service, Aggregate Knowledge achieves its breakthrough in discovery by observing the anonymous behavior of prior customers to anticipate each new customer's intent and to present new relevant options. By presenting users with engaging content, Aggregate Knowledge boosts website sales and readership. "We are honored to be recognized as an AlwaysOn Media 100 Company," said Paul Martino Paul Martino is CEO and founder of Aggregate Knowledge. Paul is also a co-founder of social networking site Tribe.net. Paul describes Aggregate Knowledge's mission: "To deliver the best content to people based on the aggregate behavior of everyone who has gone before them. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of Aggregate Knowledge. "Discovery has emerged as an exciting new category that can deliver value to both our customers and end consumers. Since our technology can be deployed in a matter of days, we immediately deliver a breakthrough in sales, page views and customer satisfaction." Aggregate Knowledge and the AO Media 100 will be honored at the AO Media executive summit January 29-31 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The summit will focus on the forces that are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the digital era, showcasing top innovative private companies that are revolutionizing the way media is created, distributed and consumed. The AO Media 100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists Venture Capitalist An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. , investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO Media 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development. "We scoured scour 1 v. scoured, scour·ing, scours v.tr. 1. a. To clean, polish, or wash by scrubbing vigorously: scour a dirty oven. b. hundreds of applications we received to vote on the top emerging private technology companies," said Tony Perkins Tony Perkins may refer to any of the following people:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Silicon Valley." A full list of all the AO Media 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=12031 About Aggregate Knowledge Aggregate Knowledge offers the industry's first online Collective Discovery Service that emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built atop a sophisticated, super-computing architecture, Aggregate Knowledge harnesses the behavior of users to fundamentally change the way people navigate and engage online. Aggregate Knowledge delivers significant revenue enhancement revenue enhancement An increase in revenues, especially by way of increased taxes. Revenue enhancement includes reducing taxpayer deductions and eliminating tax credits. to site owners by providing real-time, collective merchandising and navigation capabilities. Funded by premier venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins, the company's management team includes veterans from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun, and Tribe.net. More information can be found at www.aggregateknowlege.com. About OnHollywood 2006: May 2-4 @ The Roosevelt Hotel
AlwaysOn Hollywood is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. At AlwaysOn Hollywood, our editors will also honor the AO Hollywood 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the AO Hollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our "CEO Showcase." About AlwaysOn AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network (1) An organization that hires people to write blogs. It sells advertising and owns the blogs. Examples of such commercial blog networks are www.engadget.com and www.b5media.com. See blog. (2) An organization that serves as an advertiser intermediary for bloggers. . In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, AlwaysOn Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and GoingGreen) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants. |
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