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Developer TV Startups in the Web 2.0 Era

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SDNtv’s Month of Content about Startups Concludes with a look at EchoSign

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Learn how Echosign, a Silicon Valley newcomer provides document and signature tracking using Web 2.0 technologies.

Jason Lemkin and Gretchen DeKnikker of EchoSign demonstrate the EchoSign site, which offers both electronic and analog signature services for contracts, purchase orders, insertion orders, and more. EchoSign offers several service levels, including free — a necessity in today’s market according to Lemkin.

EchoSign was honored as one of the best startups at Startup Camp, a Sun-sponsored event for new and emerging companies. According to DeKnikker, EchoSign attended Startup Camp to learn from (and share with) a developer community ripe with knowledge.

Watch the video to hear Lemkin offer advice to developers looking to join a startup, explain why knowing Web 2.0 technologies is crucial in today’s market, and describe how back-end and front-end development are no longer disconnected.

Also this week, Greg Posten, the Geek Gadget Guru, continues this month’s exploration of SunSPOT technology.

Posten chats with Randy Smith, a senior staff engineer at Sun Labs, about SPOTWorld, a single tool for programming, configuring, managing, and monitoring Sun SPOT devices.

In February, tune in to SDNtv for a month of content about the OpenSolaris operating system, an open-source project that already has nearly 20,000 participating members.

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# February 05, 2007 at 03:05 PM PST

[Trackback] Coming off EchoSign's sharing of Best Start-up Honors at Sun's Start-up Camp, EchoSign is profiled at length on Sun's SDN TV here. Jason Lemkin and Gretchen DeKnikker of EchoSign demonstrate the EchoSign site, which offers both electronic and analog si...

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