Simple Star Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnHollywood 100 Top Private Company Award Winner
Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology for Digital Entertainment and Media
| Source: Simple Star, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 19, 2007 -- Simple Star, creator of award-winning
PhotoShow software and services, today announced that it has been chosen by
AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. The
OnHollywood 100 is a power list of the top private emerging technology
companies in digital entertainment and media. Simple Star was handpicked by
the AlwaysOn editorial team based on a set of five criteria -- innovation,
market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value
creation.
Simple Star and the OnHollywood 100 will be honored at the OnHollywood
digital entertainment and media event, May 1-3, 2007, at the Roosevelt
Hotel in Hollywood, California. OnHollywood delves into the challenges,
opportunities and business models of the digital era, and showcases the
most innovative private companies that are changing the way entertainment
and media are created, distributed, consumed and monetized.
"OnHollywood is an important forum that presents and debates the critical
issues surrounding the transformation of the entertainment economy to one
based on digital technology," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of
AlwaysOn. "Digital technology has transformed the way content is created
and delivered to consumers everywhere. The OnHollywood Top 100 companies
are an elite group of innovators who are using this technology to
revolutionize the industry."
The OnHollywood 100 was selected from more than 1,000 companies,
peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and
industry analysts.
Simple Star PhotoShows help consumers share their memories in new,
entertaining ways by turning user-generated content -- digital photos and
videos -- into compelling slideshows that combine broadcast quality
credits, captions, transitions, special effects and animations with a great
musical soundtrack. Unlike ordinary slideshows, PhotoShows are incredibly
easy to create, yet have the ability to amaze any audience.
A full list of all the OnHollywood 100 companies can be found on the
AlwaysOn Web site at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/8389
"The winners selected by AlwaysOn represent the who's who of successful
digital media companies, and we are honored to accept this award for the
second consecutive year," said Chad Richard, Simple Star CEO. "This
important recognition reinforces our efforts to deliver a superior
technology platform to the market that lets consumers share their memories
in new, entertaining ways."
About OnHollywood 2007: May 1-3 @ The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood,
California
OnHollywood is where cutting-edge technology from the backstreets of
Silicon Valley converges with Hollywood's media and entertainment elite.
The two-and-a-half day event borrows from the "film market" tradition by
providing an open environment for digital media and entertainment
entrepreneurs to meet the big-time studio, telco and consumer electronics
executives, venture capitalists and media. At OnHollywood, our editors will
also honor the OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs
from the OnHollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of
industry experts in our "CEO Showcase."
About Simple Star
Founded in 2001, Simple Star develops software products and services that
help consumers share their memories in entertaining ways through PhotoShow,
the most complete and easy-to-use photo platform available. Simple Star
distributes its award-winning PhotoShow software primarily through partners
such as cable companies, digital media software providers, online photo
services, retailers with photofinishing services and hardware
manufacturers. Millions of new users are creating, sharing and viewing
PhotoShows every month. Across multiple business sectors momentum is
building that PhotoShow is an emerging standard. Simple Star partners
include Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Nero, Kodak, Shutterfly,
Ritz Camera Centers, Walgreens and Pentax.
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first
media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued
to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network
where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the
media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event
series (Stanford Summit, AlwaysOn Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and GoingGreen)
and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share
their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn
is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and
event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open
interaction with its readers and event participants.