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Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

By Andy Smith September 8, 2008, 5:52 AM PDT

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Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Last year, TechCrunch50 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year, it’s even bigger.rn

rnAndrew Mager will be liveblogging this event from Monday through Wednesday. He’ll try to writeup all 50 startups, plus some from the demo pit.rnrn

Captions and photos by Andrew Mager

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

The demo pit is warming up. Qik’s booth.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Video search engine CastTV.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Seesmic is here. Think of it as a video Twitter.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Social search startup SearchMe is taking a group photo.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

There are lots of goodie bags for the press and presenters.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Microsoft brought its Surface computer.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Fish were swimming in Microsoft’s Surface computer.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Lots of fun Microsoft schwag.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Tired of listening to startup pitches? Rock out with Rock Band.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Jason Calacanis arrives. They are playing Kanye West on the stereo.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

The presenter’s stand is fully equiped with the best gear.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Calacanis chats with Google’s Marissa Mayer.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Blogger Calley Nye came up from LA to do some interviews and help out with the conference.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Presentations begin.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Meghan Asha from Non-Society is livestreaming the event on Qik.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Arrington consults with TechCruncher Erick Shonfeld.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Hangout Industries: u201cWhere MySpace becomes my placeu201d It’s a digital playground. Imagine a virtual house with you and your friends. You can customize your avatar with shirts from Threadless.com, streaming from the Internet. If you like the shirt, you can click u201cBuyu201d.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Blah Girls: What is it?

Blah blah blah is a dynamic interactive celebrity pop culture environment. It’s designed for teenage girls. It’s a blah blah blog. It’s gonna bring you the most up to date celebrity trends and gossip.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

It’s a true collaboration between Silicon Valley and Hollywood. It’s an interactive hub for all things celebrity.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

We understand that the web is not a passive playground. Every piece of content we put out will be interactive.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

TweeGee:
The future of social activities for kids 8-12. Content, gaming, social networking… you name it.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Here are the first two unique users of TweeGee:

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

A panel of experts gets up on stage. Marissa Mayer, Chris DeWOlfe, Ron Conway, Chad Hurley, and CNET’s Dan Farber.rnrn

Marissa: I really liked Hangout, I thought they had a lot of cool merchandise coming in.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Aston Kutcher: It’s a video so it can go anywhere. YouTube will be launching the first episode of Blah today.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Farber: One of the challenges of Blah girls may be interactivity. It sounds like a good idea, but maybe the name isn’t memorable.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Angel investor Ron Conway

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

They are livestreaming the event on TechCrunch too

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

CNET’s Kara Tsuboi interviews Calacanis.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

The guys from The Web Service. They host your data and help you control it.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Dotspots:

It is a symantic annotation layer. Imagine the wisdom of crowds… everywhere. Our first release is focused on the news. This is a browser plugin that follows you on the web, and remembers your preferences.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

AngstrornrnNews about your network. Business news about the people in your companies.rn

rnIt’s great to have an online professional network, but it’s not always as interesting.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Robert Scoble

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

LiveHit:

A speech was given about LiveHit, but I didn’t understand it at all. It seemed way too thought out and almost like MySpace.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

StockMood: Turning the news into numbers. Easily analyze stocks and see where their u201cmoodu201d is.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Marissa Mayer from Google

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Google News is launching millions of articles from old newspapers today. The technology behind it is the same that is used for Google Books.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

We all sang happy birthday to Google.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Isreali tech entrepreneur Yossi Vardi gave some of the most valuable commentary.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Girls from Gazaro pose with Larry Chaing of Asse9.com.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Yahoo! sent some people to show off BOSS, but they look pre-occupied.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Norton is showing off it’s new Internet Security 2009 product.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

If you gadgets aren’t charged, there are plenty of stations to juice up.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Gordon Peters from SocialCash came all the way from DC to be here. Pictured with Shira Lazar.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

SocialCash funds startups and literally gives them a debit card with cash on it. They will it up as needed.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Building Scalable Web Busineses: The Right Entrepreneurs Focused on the Right Markets (David Stern, Clearstone Venture Partners; Frank Addante, Rubicon Project; Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic; Ariel Poller, Serial entrepreneur; Bill Trenchard, LiveOps).

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

The guys from UStream.tv are busy playing Halo 3.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

The man who makes the event run smoothly. Mahalo’s Tyler Crowley

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Fair Software:

Start and manage a business online. Avoid lawyers!

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Just fill out a bunch of forms and your business is off the ground. The service includes a software bill of rights and a step-by-step process to begin setting up your company.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Yammer:

What’s happening at your company? You can login with your company email and get into your company’s private network.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Yammer’s an office Twitter. It gets kinda noisy, but people can create conversations like FriendFeed.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Yammer’s a great way to discover other people in your company. You can create tags by putting a # before a word. You can follow tags too. SMS and IM supported.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Opentrace is building a database like Wikipedia, with all products shipping information. With a simple webcam, you can scan a barcode and then see information about the product.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

From the experts:

Andreeson: Fair Software is a good idea. Micro markets are only growing. Yammer sounds good too. Blueprint multicore is the biggest programming challenge of our time. OpenTrace is brilliant idea.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Adgregate Markets
is increasing conversation rates through product sell-through. Advertisers can now calculate hard ROI on clicks.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

MusicShake was in the demo pit.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

San Francisco interactive design company Design about Town is here. Their huge pencil caught my attention.

Gallery: The sights of TechCrunch 50

Other Inbox:

You probably have a separate email account that you use to sign up for things, and send u201cjunku201d to.

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