Honestly, it's impossible to work in these conditions. I'm writing this from the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp ; a one-day event in San Francisco celebrating the joys of the 'real-time' web. Sounds awesome, right? It is. I've been on stage, heckling participants on the marketing panel, I've been Tweeting from the audience, I've been following the live-blogging of the panels. Generally I've been living...
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How. — The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it’s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself.
For our last discussion at the RealTime CrunchUp, we've got a panel on actually generating revenue from these services. Participating in the discussion are some of the Valley's top VCs and veterans of the space. Brian Singerman — Founders Fund Ron Conway — Angel Investor Dan'l Lewin — Corporate VP for Strategic and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft George Zachary —...
" Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all. " - Paul Buchheit , creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook. Today, at our RealTime CrunchUp event in San Francisco, Buchheit and Threadsy founder Rob Goldman sat down for a chat with our own Steve Gillmor and Erick Schonfeld. The topic was: Can We Kill...
Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff is sitting down with TechCrunch IT editor Steve Gillmor and TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld to discuss the socialization of the enterprise. Benioff recently unveiled his own social strategy for Salesforce: Chatter. Debuted at the company's Dreamforce event, Chatter allows any company to collaborate in real time with a secure, private social network...
Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any of your friends, from their LinkedIn profile to their Flickr account to their Facebook profile. In...
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator -funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your friends on Facebook and Twitter in real-time as you browse the web. We have 500 invites exclusively for TechCrunch users. You can redeem these invites simply by clicking here....
Peripherals, they say, are the spice of life. Well, maybe they don't say that, but they do say it about variety, and peripherals add variety to your computing life. If you're reading this on a stock HP desktop, clicking on links with the mouse that came with it, and trusting your data to that 512MB USB stick they gave you at work, then you should consider accessorizing.
Keith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project - Speedi.ly . What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from a URL, and analyzes it. It does this very fast and it outputs some key data. Speedi.ly tells you the language of the content, categorizes it (topics, keywords), and additional...
Extracting meaning from the Web is a difficult undertaking. Keyword search skims the surface of contextual meaning that is locked in Web pages, Tweets and feeds. That's where semantic search comes in. The semantic web deals with looking beyond simple links that make up the web to understand a deeper meaning and context behind that content. The Ellerdale Project, which launched in alpha this past week,...
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp , representatives from some of the top companies involved in location based services came together to talk about the current state and future of geo-based services. Participating in the panel were: Matt Galligan, co-Founder of SimpleGeo Ryan Sarver, Director of Platform at Twitter Tristan Walker, VP of Business Development at Foursquare Steve Lee, Group Product Manager...
Rippol , the video discovery site that combines both complex algorithms with user suggestions to surface interesting content, has launched to the public at today's RealTime CrunchUp . We recently took an in-depth look at the service, but for those who haven't seen it yet, here's a recap: Rippol looks at your video watching activity on the site, as well as that of your friends and people in your demographic....
At our Real-Time CrunchUp today in San Francisco, we are hosting a panel titles "Media Streams: Are These The Utlimate Marketing Vehicle?" Panelists include Sean Rad, CEO of Ad.ly ; Ryan Amos, co-founder of DailyBooth ; Jesse Engle, CEO of CoTweet ; Robin Bechtel, a celebrity agent and Philip Nelson, SVP of strategic development for NewTek. Below find my live notes (paraphrased):
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp we saw the launch of VideoLobby , a new service founded by Peter Urban that's looking to make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding. The service is an extension of Urban's "sales software for real people" service Smibs . Urban says that while some other services offer embeds, you're generally responsible for building...
Rotten Tomatoes is a great site because it takes all the movie reviews from around the web and condenses them into an easy-to-understand aggregate score. But let's be honest: Most movie reviewers suck. Why not instead rely on people in your social circle to recommend movies to you? That's the idea behind FlixUp . This new iPhone app unveiled at our Realtime CrunchUp event in San Francisco today essentially...
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