Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

“BuzzData is the Web’s most popular way to share and disseminate data. BuzzData gives every data set a home where people can interact with it and discover the story the data tells. BuzzData is the best way to communicate data privately within your team or organization, managing revisions, associated files, derivative works, social feeds and data-oriented tasks.”

Visit their website at buzzdata.com

Here is an excerpt from their website:

“Retailers are seeing more and more of their customers enter the store with a smartphone, what are they doing about it? Many aren’t doing much. This report chronicles the successes of a few, key brands and highlights a means to calculate the maturity of strategies among others, navigate the right path to mobile and design and app for success. From companies just starting to ponder mobile and still “on the ground” to those “flying high” Altimeter illustrates the next steps brands and retailers must take to ensure success.”

Check out the full report here.

Weave

Weave is a new open-source data visualization platform.  Here is a description from their site “Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography.”

There are plenty of screen grabs, videos and demos available at their site to check out.

Their website is http://oicweave.org

Most people today have become accustomed to media technology and move from one platform to another with ease. This allows for stories to be told across those same platforms.   Every interaction across channels increases audience participation,

In transmedia you are moving audiences from:

• Spectator to participant
• Messages to stories
• Static to evolving
• Limited engagement to deep engagement
• Calendar based to real-time based

Starlight Runner Entertainment, is considered a top company in this area.

Starlight Runner Entertainment

Here is an excerpt from their website.  ”Starlight Runner Entertainment, Inc., founded by Jeff Gomez and Mark Pensavalle, is a leading creator and producer of highly successful transmedia franchises, maximizing the value of entertainment properties and consumer brands by preparing them for extension across multiple media platforms. Starlight Runner Entertainment also produces animated and live-action feature films, as well as digital content.”

Mobilezr

Are you interested in the development of an iPhone, Android, Tablet or HTML5 mobile application or site?  Check out Mobilezr.  They “Add mobile wings to your business or ideas.”

Prism SkyLabs

According to their website http://pri.sm, “Prism Skylabs brings physical spaces online, creating new places for people and businesses to understand and engage each other.”

Through a cloud based service, they provide business owners the ability to put their video feeds online, capture images from these feeds and share this data with others. Many businesses have surveillance cameras but rarely ever utilize it. Prism Skylabs serves up this content and layers data visualizations on top. These visualizations represent various data points of interest to the owner or those they are sharing it with . They also have a way to protect customer’s privacy by masking faces.

If you are going to SXSW 2012, they are finalists for the Accelerator Program. You can find out more information about the Accelerator Program here.