These are the 3 companies that I'll have a closer look at personally (see below).

Thnx go out to Peter Lindner from lindnerconsult.de for sending me the link to the article mentioned in the previous post.

Company: Trulia (San Francisco)
What it is: Real estate mashup
Next Net bona fides: Combining home listings from agents' websites with Google Maps, the site is becoming a hit in California and is expanding into other regions.

Company: Iotum (Ottawa, Ontario)
What it is: Presence management software
Next Net bona fides: With its app, users will be able to control where and when they receive voice or text data, routing calls to their phones, e-mail, or RSS feed-and blocking calls from, say, creditors.

Company: Writely (Portola Valley, CA)
What it is: Online word processing
Next Net bona fides: It enables online creation of documents, opens them to collaboration by anyone anywhere, and simplifies publishing the end result on a website as a blog entry.