Scrapblog goes beyond sharing photos and video online, but empowering you to create your online scrapbook. I had a chance to see the product in action at Demo Fall 2006 and it’s really quite impressive what is possible inside this application. Scrapblog allows you to create world of your pictures.

Photos can be sourced from Flickr, Photobucket, or your desktop. In addition, you can also include videos from YouTube and other services. A collection of “stickers” enable you to customize things further. There are some very nice looking themes that will allow you to get a jump start. Unlike other themes, these are fully editable.

You can ultimately publish your ScrapBlog to the web and choose the level of security you want to have. From there, you can quickly embed the ScrapBlog into your blog or MySpace profile. In addition, Wordpress and Typepad integration is supported. If you’re a Flickr user, you can even export the ScrapBlog as a photo set.

Further Reading:

Scrapblog blog
Coverage at downloadsquad blog

Wallop empowers you create your distinct online personality by empowering you to mesh your online and offline personas. What struck me the most about Wallop was the interface (co-designed by the Frog Design team). There really is no metaphor that nicely describes the site. Movement throughout the application is very organic. The most “forced feature” if there is any, is the method of creating conversations around things.One of the most interesting features is the Radar. This is the visual map of your network. They are abandoning the friend of a friend model. The system uses an affinity model that brings people closer to you based on your level of interaction with the individual - either direct or indirect (through your network).

Some controversy seems to have dusted up over the Mods. These are small flash movies that can be created by the 2M+ flash developers in the world. Wallop is literally a marketplace for flash applets. They take a 30% commission for the sale and all pricing is dictated by the creator. I give it a thumbs up.

Further Reading:

Pronet Advertising has very good write up on Wallop
Read about Wallop on Mashable

Widgetbox has the goal of widgetizing the web. Today’s world is using widgets to enable content, communities and E-commerce. Widgetbox provides you with hundred ready made of widgets that you can add to your own pages. They are trying to make it easier for you to create your own widgets. They have a Money Maker’s category that lists widgets that will actually earn you some cold, hard cash for the real estate they take up on your site.

The application enables you to customize the presentation of the widget - effectively normalizing widget configuration. WidgetBox has tag awareness - “Widgets tune in to the content of the page and they do so automatically.”

Further Reading:
Coverage of Widgetbox at Mashable
Widgetbox on Will Price’s blog

PostPath is the first company outside of Redmond to build protocol compatibility with Microsoft Exchange (famous for using undocumented protocols). Interestingly, the PostPath server runs on Linux but appears to the system as a valid Exchange Server. A nice feature is that the Linux tools for high availability can be leveraged as opposed to the Microsoft route.

Postpath is billed as drop in replacement of Exchange server for the companies looking for a rock solid email and collaboration server. Microsoft has a very strong grip in any Enterprise environment, with Microsoft products being used from desktop to the server room and everywhere in between. For any new entrant in the Enterprise space, it is always an uphill task to kick in the enterprise doors and convince the customers to switch to a non-Microsoft products or even to try it out. Their demo at DemoFall 2006 was certainly impressive.

In my opinion the key to Postpath success would lie in finding the way to penetrate the enterprise and giving them a very compelling reason to try it out or switch. Watch out for this company along with Zimbra.

Further Reading:
Postpath named Top 10 startups to watch
New methodologies for ‘bottomless’ e-mail storage
Network World’s Unified Communications Newsletter
Michael’s thought blog has an interesting post
Follow the discussion on Ed Brill’s blog on Collaboration & Technolology
PostPath goes after Microsoft Exchange at ReadWrite Web blog