Posted by Robert on September 16, 2009 ·
TechCrunch50 is finally over after witnessing two day successful event. The conference had 50 startup presentations. All had something new and unique about them. However, fortunately or unfortunately, like every event has only one eventual winner, TechCrunch50 too announced Redbeacon as the winner. Redbeacon walked away with the valuable prize money [...]
Posted by Robert on September 16, 2009 ·
It’s surely the world of social networking. The latest one to join this zone is Radiusly, a new service that launched today at the TechCrunch50. Interestingly, Radiusly wants to merge its service with Twitter and present it in a more professional setting. No doubts that LinkedIn and Facebook are already way too popular but they nevertheless, [...]
Posted by Robert on September 16, 2009 ·
Chyngle is one of Demopit winners at TechCrunch50 2009. Just like its snazzy name suggests, Chyngle allows you to find out your location and discover services and people nearby while you are in a stadium (say you are watching a football match in a football stadium) as its branded apps use GPS. This is really awesome and unique.
It makes you really [...]
Posted by Carlos on September 16, 2009 ·
Classifieds were always one of the biggest reasons why people bought newspapers. Once Craigslist came online, it just had to die. However, at TechCrunch50 there were many more interesting classifieds like services which are all new start ups that need encouragement.
In fact, if you visit the 4 sites that PC Mag chose, you would be surprised to learn [...]
Posted by Carlos on September 16, 2009 ·
DataXu is a Boston-based start-up which looks pretty impressive and was announced at the TechCrunch50 conference. They have debuted what is being touted as the first real-time ad optimization system. They have worked across exchange and ad platforms such as Yahoo, Microsoft and Google. The start up aims to help the advertisers more than the publishers.
The [...]
Posted by Carlos on September 16, 2009 ·
If you are familiar with the idea of buying tickets on eBay and such other websites, you would also be familiar with secondary markets for tickets. SeatGeek is a new start up that was unveiled at the TechCrunch50 conference.
While it is always cheaper to buy music, movie and concert or even tickets on sites like eBay one can never predict when the ticket [...]
Posted by Carlos on September 16, 2009 ·
HealthyWage is a new start up which was presented at the TechCrunch50 today. The company tries to incentivize people’s workout plans and if someone achieves the goal of losing a certain amount of weight, they would be given a reward at the end of the year.
Users can post what they ate, and the portal would calculate protein, fat, carbohydrates [...]
Posted by Carlos on September 16, 2009 ·
RackUp is a new start up that was presented at the TechCrunch50 conference. It aims to disrupt the $100 billion gift card market by venturing into the online auction platform.
The auctions work on the principle of who bids first, and if a person bids first and loads of people come later, his particular bid would have more value. The idea seems to be [...]
Posted by Carlos on September 16, 2009 ·
Udorse is being touted as a visual endorsement engine and was launched at the TechCrunch50 conference. The start up connects your Facebook profile to your Udorse account with the help of Facebook Connect. Thanks to all this, you would be able to endorse products, items and objects from your account to Udorse and even add descriptions, tags and identify [...]
Posted by Carlos on September 16, 2009 ·
LIFEmee is one of the start ups that did not make to the finalists at the TechCrunch50 conference. Nevertheless, that does not make the company any lesser. While there could be many criteria for being eliminated, there could be many errors of judgement too.
The idea of the start up is to provide the user with a platform through which he or she can share, [...]