The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) today announced its selections for the “Most Promising New Company” at “Launch: Silicon Valley 2008,” which was held yesterday at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. Thirty companies were chosen to present at the annual event, which had a record 266 applicants this year.

The winners in each of the presenting categories included:

– Next Generation Internet: Dayak

– Semiconductor/Industrial: Loadstar Sensors

– Next Generation Internet: Triggit

– Life Science & Acoustics: Sensear (from Australia)

– Computing: uTest

– Media & Mobility: Dial2Do

Dayak, is the world’s first online recruiting marketplace that links employers with a nationwide network of professionally trained recruiters in order to fill jobs faster and save employers money. www.dayak.com.

Triggit dramatically simplifies the process of monetizing Websites. Using Triggit’s unique technology, web publishers can start running ads across their entire site with just the click of a mouse and one simple line of code. www.triggit.com.

Loadstar Sensors Inc. is a leader in the design and manufacture of capacitive load sensors for automotive, aerospace, medical device and industrial applications. www.loadstarsensors.com.

Sensear has developed the Patent Pending SENS (Speech Enhancing Noise Suppressing) Technology, the world’s first speech enhancement device that enables clear communication in high noise environments. Sensear has a first mover advantage in the industrial sector and is uniquely positioned to create and dominate a new speech enhancement device market targeting consumers with hearing loss. www.sensear.com.

uTest is the first ever, on-demand global marketplace for software application testing-providing companies with testing services by a global community of professional software testers. www.uTest.com.

Dial2Do is a phone service that gives users a phone number to call to get things done, hands-free. It lets them make use of driving time to send emails/texts, create reminders, listen to selected content and use a range of other hands-free services, safely and easily. Users just dial the number and say what they want to do. www.dial2do.com.

“Yesterday’s event was a smashing success, with well over 300 people attending. We think the audience had a chance to preview some of the most innovative and compelling startups in the marketplace today,” said Chris Gill, President and CEO of SVASE. “We look forward to monitoring the future successes of these companies.”

For more information about the event, and overview of all the companies that presented at “Launch: Silicon Valley 2008,” please visit the following URL: launchsiliconvalley.org/agenda.html.

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TheDeal.com writes:

The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs has announced the 30 companies (selected from 266 applicants) to demonstrate new products at Launch: Silicon Valley 2008. The event, which is sponsored by SVASE, Garage Technology Ventures and Microsoft Corp., will be held June 10 at the software maker’s campus in Mountain View, Calif., and will feature companies that, while flying under the radar, are ready to commercially introduce their products or service.

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Blogger Leslie Poston writes about her experience with Triggit:

Triggit has been making waves as an innovative way to make web site monetization easy. It is often mistaken for a downloadable toolbar. In fact is it a web based application that matches your site to ad opportunities, Triggit brings the monetization to you.

The genius of Triggit is the simple drag and drop interface. If you have ever tried to shove an ad into a place on your web site using HTML, PHP or CSS, you know what a hassle it can be for the amateur web designer. It’s often a hassle for the experienced web designer as well to place ads on a site.

She concludes:

I must say I added Triggit to one of my personal blogs using WordPress 2.5, and I love how easy it is to use. It took only a few minutes to sign up and place the code in my blog. Once everything was ready, simply clicking on the Trigget short cut in my toolbar got me started. The jury is out on how well the ads will perform, but for ease of use, Trigget gets an A+.

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John Nogrady is Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. He writes: Congratulations to Zach Coelius and Triggit as the winning startup at Web 2.0 Expo. Triggit helps bloggers and small website owners make money. Their simple WYSIWYG editing tool uses just one line of JavaScript to enable instant drag-and-drop publishing of AdSense, Amazon and other affiliate programs and ad networks. Users can also easily add content from sites like Flickr and YouTube.

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Real-Time SMS-Voted People’s Choice Winner Helps Websites Make Money

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 /PRNewswire/ — TechWeb (Formerly CMP) and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo, today announced the winner of the Launch Pad start up program. Triggit, one of six on-stage presenters, took home the title of People’s Choice Winner on Thursday, April 24th during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco at Moscone West.

This year Web 2.0 Expo hosted a Venture Capital Edition of the Launch Pad program, showcasing the best Web 2.0 startups and providing a unique public forum for unveiling new companies and products. Web 2.0 Expo, in its second year, is the leading global gathering of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. http://www.web2expo.com/sf.

Triggit (http://www.triggit.com/), the winning startup, helps bloggers and small website owners make money. This simple WYSIWYG editing tool uses just one line of JavaScript to enable instant drag-and-drop publishing of AdSense, Amazon and other affiliate programs and ad networks. Triggit can source, integrate, optimize and track ads on the site, making ad management and monetization pain-free.

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PC World names Triggit among seven Web 2.0 Web Services to try out now:

Triggit is a niche application for sites that struggle to manage and display ads from Google and other online ad services. Once you’ve signed up, a small line of Triggit code placed anywhere on your site creates a button that launches the app, which has a  lot of muscle for handling image placement and editing. Triggit lets you easily drop in pictures or ads from all of the major services (they show up in a drop-down menu) in whatever format you like; the service can take over all of your billing, too, so that you receive a single check from a single source each pay period.

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Zach Coelius, CEO Triggit, writes:

I am very excited to announce that Triggit has been selected to be part of the Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad next Thursday. We get to present Triggit in front of the whole Web 2.0 audience and show them what we are up to. It should be a great opportunity to talk about helping small publishers monetize their websites and client side editing of websites.

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Kate Trgovac writes:

Triggit … web monetization made simple.  Triggit is this cool little browser bit that lets you put in affiliate links, flickr pictures or YouTube videos just by dragging and dropping.  No backend coding required.  It’s pretty wild.  There are some videos on the site that explain it.  It all seems to happen post-publishing and I’m not sure if feeds are impacted/supported (I’m guessing they aren’t).  It’s a bit of a change to the usual blog writing model if you’re used to delivering to a feed-based audience, but great for serendipitous traffic from search, I think.  Nice tool to empower individuals running web-based affiliate businesses or the casual blogger.  I added a couple of links, photo and video to this post.  All the relevant code seems to be on their server.  It’s cool and creepy at the same time

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Bobby Dunn of Triggit writes:

One of the places that Triggit really shines is in our ability to make it super simple to create highly targeted in text links just by highlighting a word of phrase. The Triggit tool automatically takes the word or phrase and runs it against a database of millions of products.

Take for instance “Mac powerbook” or “my Blackberry Pearl.”

While these seem like simple little links, our publishers have seen eCPMs of over $20 in certain verticals. As banner and AdSense blindness becomes a bigger and bigger problem Triggit becomes an effective way to earn more from a website.

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Zach Coelius, CEO Triggit, writes:

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