HipLogic, a stage1ventures portfolio company, is one of 70 companies chosen to present at the DEMO Fall 2010 event. Mark Anderson, CEO of HipLogic, announced that their social media and news feed application for Nokia and Windows mobile phones is coming to an Android phone near you.

Known as *Spark, this app brings Facebook, Twitter and news feeds in one easy to read panel, and updates them in real time. But its more than just a pretty face - the app is based on the next-generation of HipLogic’s MobiJax’s virtual machine platform.  Included in this platform is a app store specific to *spark, to support further additions / customization to its expanding user base.

HipLogic’s DEMO presentation can be viewed here.

Innerpass, a business and education collaboration tool that leverages the skype network, announced that it has crossed the threshold of three million users.

Steve Parsloe, CEO and president of InnerPass said that surpassing the three million figure was a major milestone for the organization, and added that over the past year, they have been incorporating user feedback into various upgrades, including an expanded Conference Bridge, an updated Screen-Sharing product, InnerPass Inbox and an easier File Manager product.

Additional information can be found in the Innerpass TMCnet article.

magnify.net, a social video site that lets website publishers create video channels, has expanded their video ad offering - which was covered by techcrunch.

This video advertising product, named elastic inventory, allows publishers who use magnify to insert their own pre-roll ads in the embedded videos.

Additional information can be found in the Magnify techcrunch article.

As one of the original seed investors in Carbonite (www.carbonite.com), the leading online backup service provider, I often worry about data backup. As we move toward a nearly 100% digital life with digital documents, contacts, calendars, to do lists, music, photos, financial statements, etc it becomes extremely important that we backup our digital data, because the digital data has become our lives.

As we move toward cloud computing, backup becomes more nebulous. Certainly the online providers are backing up our data in mass to protect themselves from major data center disasters, but in a multi-tenant environment, what happens to the individual when they lose their cloud data?

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