Carla Thompson and Keith Shaw discuss how the latest technology news affects the DEMO community of innovators, influencers and entrepreneurs.
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Keith Shaw talks with Todd Miller, president and founder of DEMO 09 alumnus Gwabbit, about how the company that decided to charge $19.95 for its software has achieved profitability within six months, and whether this is the new (old) business model for technology startups. (16:57)
Carla Thompson and Keith Shaw discuss how the latest technology news affects the DEMO community of innovators, influencers and entrepreneurs.
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Gwabbit is not unique, and no reason to buy itBy Anonymous on September 7, 2009, 12:23 amThere is a product called Contact Capture from Broadlook Technologies (www.broadlook.com). It has been around for 5+ years and does what gwabbit does. It kills me when a company comes out with a product, and they basically did not do their market research. Contact Capture is free, is not limited to parsing one Contact at a time and rocks. I have been using it for 3+ years. Perhaps Broadlook does not do well in marketing Contact Capture, since it is free, I know it is not their main focus. I purchased some high end data mining software from Broadlook and my sales rep I talked to at Broadlook told me about Contact Capture as an after thought. When I saw Gwabbit, I checked it out and it has the about the same level of accuracy as eGrabber and Anagram (two more companies that do the contact information parsing)... both of which I have used and switched because they are not a fast or accurate as Contact Capture. Using Contact Capture, I can capture 100 contacts on a page in less than 1 second. Overkill? Probably, but having it there when I need it is sweet. Broadlook should start charging for it, or license it to gwabbit since they seem to be better at the marketing. I spend my day doing market research, so, sometimes I must rant about stuff. The question is, who needs to do better market research Gwabbit, Broadlook, or both?
Gwabbit has poor parsingBy Anonymous on November 22, 2009, 1:12 pmRecently looked at both products, Gwabbit and Contact Capture. If I use Gwabbit, I need to go back and fix the mistakes manually. Contact Capture rarely misses. I just wish Broadlook would add a button in Outlook, that would make Contact Capture a 10 out of 10 vs. a 9 out of 10.
I believe that gwabbit isBy Anonymous on September 8, 2009, 4:15 pmI believe that gwabbit is unique in that it does not require you to first highlight the contact information. It is completely automatic.