For the past few years, Fall means for me going to DEMO... Yes, again! It used to be a much smaller cousin of the "real" Demo happening earlier in the year and dubbed DEMO Mobile. Renamed DEMOfall 2 years ago, the organisers have tried to widen the focus of the conference - I guess there was not enough innovation in the mobile space... then!- and it now has a life of its own.

This year, DEMOfall attendance is more than 10% from the last event (800 expected attendees, 100 press) with 72 companies presenting, mostly unknown start-ups, except for Alcatel-Lucent, RealNetworks and Best Buy! DEMOfall kicks off this morning and you can find the complete conference agenda here.

To make DEMOfall possible, the conference producer, Chris Shipley, have said to interview more than 1,000 companies from around the globe including Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Taiwan! Some of the products launching at DEMOfall 08 include:

• products that help you manage, deliver, and socialize your mobile phone and content.

• tools that enable you to personalize, navigate and deliver multi-media, rich-media presentations and television content over the Web.

• a solution that brings RFID right to the consumer.

• an application that promises to keep spam out of your inbox for good.

• a tool that takes the mystery out of eating healthy wherever you are.

• services that take personal finance management to a new level.

• a solution that makes everyone a game developer.

• tools to make you fall in love with your photos again.

• products focused on reducing our impact on the planet from energy consumption to traffic congestion.