I headed over to the Javits center with Kurt Ebner of Castle Point
Systems, Inc. Castle Point focuses on Microsoft solutions and
technologies and offers its clients both superior technical skills and
solid project management skills for their projects. It was a busy week
at the Javits center with real estate and textile shows going on in
addition to the Internet and Electronic Commerce show. After
weeding through the splashy, plush overdone booths and the swarms
of smaller (but equally aggressive booths) I found a few interesting
nuggets. In the telecom and e-com arena Seattle and Vancouver based
E-Charge (www.echarge.com) is expanding their services of allowing
consumers to securely charge on-line purchases to their phone bill to
Canada. In one of the newest trendy areas of on-line shopping,
incentive e-commerce, San Francisco based Netcentives
(www.clickrewards.com) is expanding with an acquisition of Panttaja
and reward programs with BarnesandNoble.com, garden.com, and is
the exclusive provider of frequent flyer miles for major airlines. I was
also impressed with Extricity Software, who even had a CD corporate
video in their press kit in addition to the standard demo CD. They
have a virtual factory and customer integration solutions for b2b
clients.
