De 50 (52) bedrijven die een presentatie mogen doen op TechCrunch50 zijn inmiddels ook bekend.

Jeugd en cultuur

Blah Girls - Backed by Ashton Kutcher, Blah Girls is a gossip site that features a group of animated teenage girls who provide opinions on what’s going on in the world of entertainment.

Tweegee (CB) — A hub for tweens, Tweegee offers the youth market a suite of online tools for social interaction and organization.

Shryk (CB) — Web-based financial software for children aimed at promoting financial literacy and good saving habits.

Hangout Industries (CB) — Blends social networking with virtual worlds by creating a 3D, online environment where 16-24 year olds can chat and share media

Memes & news

DotSpots (CB) — Tracks the memes spreading across the web, aggregates the content associated with them, and gives everyone Wikipedia-like control over that content.

Angstro (CB) — Lets you set up a feed of news about your friends, instead of news by your friends.

LiveHit (CB) — Tracks the music, videos, and entertainment sites people are clicking on right now.

Quant the News (CB) — Creator of StockMood.com, a service that tracks the sentiments of online news stories about stocks and then measures their potential impact on the direction of those stocks’ prices

Enterprise

FairSoftware (CB) — Creates virtual shares around software projects that gives each contributor a portion of any resulting revenues.

Yammer (CB) — A web application designed for businesses and organizations that asks its users to answer the question, “What are you working on?”

Connective Logic (CB) — Along with the company’s real-time middleware, Blueprint will make it easier for developers to design, generate code, and deploy complex multi-core software applications without requiring expertise in multi-threaded software development

Devunity (CB) — A platform for writing code in a browser-based editor that doesn’t force developers to use a proprietary layer

OpenTrace - Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment

Advertising & Commerce Monetization

Burt (CB) — Collects user data to tailor individual advertising campaigns and target users more effectively.

Adgregate Markets (CB) — Brings the store to consumers through a fully transactional widget.

Adrocket (CB) — Contextual text-based advertising for email; assigns keywords to each address depending on known data

OtherInBox (CB) — Provides an easy way to contain spam and the messages you receive from online services

Collaboration

Tingz (CB) — Offers a unified platform for delivering internet content across multiple devices including mobile phones and PCs

MIXTT (CB) — A group based social network/dating site that encourages real world interaction that’s more comfortable than the 1-on-1 format of most similar sites.

Imindi (CB) — Based on neuroscientific principles, Imindi’s Thought Engine tries to exceed human thought and help its users find new ideas, concepts, and questions on the Web

Popego (CB) — Surfaces the most meaningful information from within your social graph based on your interests and other factors

Financieel en statistieken

PersonalRIA (CB) — Allows users to shadow a professional investment advisor’s portfolio, automatically executing trades (which most brokerage sites cannot do).

Emerginvest (CB) — Offers commentary and analysis on Emerging Markets and tools that provide you with information on how to diversify globally.

ExchangeP (CB) — Dubbed a “fantasy stock market,” ExhangeP’s service allows users to sign up for free and start investing in private companies.

Me-trics (CB) — Lets you see how mood, weight, and goals correlate with other metrics, including web services like Facebook or RescueTime.

Mobile

iCharts (CB) — YouTube for interactive charts.

Mytopia (CB) — A gaming platform that lets players compete across mobile devices and social networks.

Tonchidot (CB) — Makes the Sekai Camera, a camera system that aims to merge the virtual and real worlds by using a digital device as a viewfinder.

Mobclix (CB) — An analytics and monetization platform for iPhone developers

FitBit (CB) — Developing a small wireless sensor called the Fitbit Tracker, which automatically records data about a person’s activities, calories burned, sleep quality, steps, and distance throughout the day

Taal en Communicatie tools

Alfabetic (CB) — Translates any blog or Website into another language and places ads alongside it in the new tongue.

Postbox (CB) — Based on Mozilla technology, Postbox saves users time when looking for particular information within their email

Swype (CB) — A new method of text input on touch screens; does away with traditional “hunt and peck” in favor of a more fluid motion

DropBox (CB) — Provides an easy way to backup your files, share them with coworkers and friends, and synchronize them between computers

Rich Media

VideoSurf (CB) — A visual video search engine that allow users to search across millions of videos for a given actor and to view summaries of videos through a series of detected keyframes

GazoPa (CB) — An image search engine developed by Hitachi that uses visual similarities between photos to suggest matches (rather than simply relying on keywords).

Fotonauts (CB) — A photo sharing application that turns every album instantly into a Web page.

Bojam (CB) — Although there are a slew of online music services already on the Web, Bojam is trying to do something a bit different: it wants to connect musicians and allow them to collaborate over the Web.

Games

Grockit (CB) - A “Massively Multi-Player Online Learning Game”

Akoha (CB) — A web-based social game played with trading cards aimed at spreading good deeds around the world

Atmosphir (CB) — A platform for creating 3D interactive games by selecting blocks (such as a sand castle tower, fireball-breathing bird, or trap door) and snapping them onto a grid

PlaYce (CB) — Makes a global playground by providing a 3D virtual world inside the browser for games and social interaction that is based on the real world

Vertical Social Networking

Birdpost (CB) — A social network for birdwatchers

Closet Couture - Fashionistas need a social network too and Closet Couture is looking to give them one by connecting them to other fashion lovers, stylists, and retailers

Footnote - For those that are looking to create historical records of loved ones or themselves, Footnote offers a timeline-based archive

Causecast (CB) - Causecast leverages social networking to connect nonprofits, leaders, celebrities and brands with those who want to make a difference through good causes

Shattered Reality Interactive (CB) - A new massively multiplayer online game (think World of Warcraft) that lets the crowd guide the direction of future expansions

Research & Recommendations

GoodGuide (CB) - Provides information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of products and companies

GoPlanit (CB) — A one-click travel planner that assembles a customized trip itinerary with the click of a button; also supports mobile microblogging

TrueCar (CB) - A site that allows users to assess the current market value of their automobiles in a given geographic area

Goodrec (CB) - A mobile and online recommendation service that provides brief, to-the-point recommendations from friends and trusted sources

Vanaf 7 t/m 9 september barst Demo los
Vanaf 8 t/10 september barst TechCrunch50 los.

Beide evenementen zijn gericht op “innovatieve” startups die de mogelijkheid krijgen zichzelf te presenteren.
Demo heeft de lijst met bedrijven al bekend gemaakt, 72 in totaal .
Techcrunch maakt maandag de deelnemende bedrijven bekend, het betreft hier 50 bedrijven.

Demo:
Demo sprekers
Advisory Board
Agenda Demo

TechCrunch50:
Agenda Techcrunch
Expert panel

Robert Scoble heeft in ieder geval een duidelijke mening over de bij Demo aanwezige start-ups
Michael Arrington laat weten waarom Demo onethisch is.

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