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KonoLive, the instant collaboration software, announced its global launch today at DEMO 08, the premier launch venue for new products, technologies and companies. KonoLive is the instant collaboration software that is defining the future of knowledge sharing.

We all collaborate on a daily basis. KonoLive connects the three core elements necessary to get things done - People, Activities, and Content - and introduces a new layer of collaboration tools to enable the smooth integration of all three. With KonoLive, collaborating on the things you do every day can be reduced to intuitive, single-click actions. By engaging your social and business networks to contribute to activities, KonoLive brings more value to the content you create and share - anytime, anywhere and on any format.

“It’s easy to confuse ‘communication’ - which is around us every day through email, phone, fax and instant messenger applications - with ‘collaboration’,” commented Yossi Dan, co-founder & CEO of 2Win-Solutions, the developer of KonoLive. “The ability to truly collaborate on any content is still a cumbersome process with multiple versions of documents, media and other content being generated by overwhelmed knowledge workers. KonoLive empowers teams and individuals in a unified collaboration space and increases their productivity without requiring them to learn complex new tools.”

Online, exponential growth of social software is just beginning to tap the potential of collaboration networks. Connections are being created, but are not yet boosting productivity and frustration levels continue to rise while working with existing collaboration software. KonoLive provides an intuitive environment that is open to the applications everyone uses on a daily basis, freeing team members to work efficiently in familiar territory.

As a unified collaboration space, KonoLive concentrates relevant content items such as documents, Web pages and media files so that they are easily accessible. This enables a quick review cycle, with collaboration tools such as comment, digital signature, tag, vote and more to come. This information is available from the KonoLive collaboration space, creating an environment that communicates expertise. KonoLive works both offline and online, enabling everyone to work anytime, anywhere.

Commenting on the launch of KonoLive, Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO Conferences said, “It’s still early days for online collaboration. Even while social and business networking tools are seeing rapid adoption, real productivity won’t come until these new technologies are integrated into usable mash-ups. KonoLive creates a unified collaboration that lets its customers get things done. It’s a new baseline for practical knowledge sharing.”

KonoLive is one of the first applications to leverage Adobe® AIR^TM, strengthening the connection between the desktop and the Internet to create a smooth and seamless experience for KonoLive users as they navigate intuitively between applications.

KonoLive is also announcing its private beta program, offering anyone the chance to begin collaborating and sharing ideas and content for free. Visit KonoLive to sign up and understand the elegant simplicity of instant collaboration.

Delver will present its soon-to-launch socially connected search engine at DEMO 08 in Palm Desert, California, on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 3pm PST. Delver is the first company to map a user’s social connections and deliver comprehensive Web search results ranked according to their social relevance to that user.

“People want trusted information from their friends, but may not know who in their network is knowledgeable about a given topic,” said Liad Agmon, CEO of Delver. “We make Web search more fun and meaningful by prioritizing results based on a user’s network, while enabling the user to discover others in their extended network who share common interests.”

Delver makes search more significant to the user by organizing friends’ tags and information found on social networking profiles, blogs, bookmarks, photo and video sharing sites; unlike older-generation Web search engines which prioritize the Web based upon the popularity of a given page or Web site. Then, the Delver search engine ranks this information based upon the searcher’s social connections. Since every person’s social graph is unique — like a fingerprint — the same query garners vastly different results for each person and reflects the collective experiences of a user’s trusted contacts.

“Delver’s social search functionality has the potential to redefine the way people search for uniquely relevant information on the Web,” said Chris Shipley, executive producer of the semi annual DEMO Conferences.

Since the user’s social connections impact the type of information a Delver search will yield, each user’s results will be different. For example, if a 50-year old mom and her teen son use Delver to search for information on a particular film the results generated for the mom will vary greatly from that of her son, based on the differences of their respective social groups. Delver organizes and ranks content from the user’s network because social connections are critical for discovering more personally relevant information.

About Delver:

Delver is the first connected search company that improves the relevancy of Web search results by prioritizing these results based upon the searcher’s social network. The company’s patent-pending technology maps users’ social connections and delivers web search results ranked according to their social relevance to the users. Delver is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel and will open U.S. offices in Silicon Valley in spring 2008. Delver is backed by Carmel Ventures, a top-tier Israel-based VC.