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Announcing A Grassroots Roundtable And 100 Tickets Available For TechCrunch MeetUp in Austin
Today, we are releasing 100 additional tickets for the TechCrunch Meet-Up in Austin, Texas with the team from Austin Ventures. As previously reported, we are in town on Thursday, September 25 just in time for the Austin City Limits music festival.
Get your tickets now, as we only expect to release one additional round of tickets prior to the event. We do have a handful of three day ACL passes, including backstage access and admission to the Austin Venture tent, to give away to sponsors and designated attendees.
Also, I will be hosting a Roundtable Discussion prior to the Pangaea Meet-Up, at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. This will be similar in format to the Mobile Web Wars Roundtable I hosted in July—two dozen founders, CEOs, VCs, and execs in a room talking about an issue, live streamed over the Web. The theme of the Roundtable will be “The Web Starts at the Grassroots”. It will focus on how to use the Web to build grassroots support for startups, brands, politicians, and social causes. Look for a post from me later in the week with details on participants and access to tickets. If you are interested in joining as a participant, please reach out to me via email this week.
The TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up will be held at Pangea, one of the hottest new venues in Austin. At Pangaea we will feature local start-ups and other sponsors, starting at 5:30 p.m. (central time) and running to 10:00 p.m. (or whenever they kick us out).
All of the proceeds from the TechCrunch Austin Ventures Meet-Up will benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation, an organization uniting people to fight cancer – believing that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything.
In addition to releasing tickets for the Austin Meet-Up, sponsorship opportunities and demo tables are now available for companies to show off their products. If you want to support the event, please contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde. If you are a member of the press wanting to cover the event, please contact Sarah Ross.
Attendee identification will be checked at the door. Tickets are not transferable and not refundable. If you use your name to purchase multiple tickets, your guests must arrive with you to check in at the door.
We look forward to seeing you in Austin.
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Great Apps Using The CrunchBase API
Since launching the CrunchBase API less than two weeks ago we’ve seen a great response from developers, who have already developed a number of impressive plugins and applications. The CrunchBase API offers access to information from thousands of tech companies, VCs and startup entrepreneurs. It’s free to use, there are no accounts to sign up for and no request throttling. The API returns clean, pretty-printed JSON, and only basic attribution is required. Here are some of great applications already in the wild:
CrunchBase WordPress Plugins
Two plugins sprung up that make it easy to insert the CrunchBase widget into WordPress blog posts. The first, developed by Vaibhav Gadodia, queries the CrunchBase API to determine the CrunchBase URL for a company. Joost de Valk, the author of numerous WordPress plugins, also released a CrunchBase widget plugin that supports all of the CrunchBase entity types (companies, products, people, and financial organizations).
CrunchBase Social Graphs
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Finnish readers Mikko Kivelä and Bemmu Sepponen have generated whopper social graphs using the full web of CrunchBase data. One of the graphs maps company connections in CrunchBase, while the other is concerned with the people involved. They also created a fun text file that counts the degrees of separation from any company to Google (TechCrunch is 2 away). We’d love to see a version of They Rule using financial organizations instead of board members.
Semantic CrunchBase
Quite possibly the most exciting use of the CrunchBase API is Semantic CrunchBase, a RDF/SPARQL mirror of CrunchBase that adheres to the principles of the Semantic Web. Semantic CrunchBase comes to us from active Semantic/RDF community developer Benjamin Nowack. A RDF/SPARQL interface enables queries to be run against the CrunchBase data. For example, you can query for all the companies that were funded during January 2008 (which you can already do via a web interface with our advanced search page). Semantic CrunchBase is a great add-on that will open up new doors with respect to the applications people can create with CrunchBase data.
If you are doing something cool with CrunchBase data we’d love to see it. Become a member and post on the CrunchBase Google Group. Follow us on Twitter. Subscribe to the CrunchBase Blog.
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Plus ça change
Holiday weekends, especially the ones that bracket the summer months, tend to be stress tests for the tech media. With the proliferation of smart phones, social media aggregators, and of course the Twitter clonestakes, it’s now trivial to get a snapshot of what is going on throughout the “time off.”
Is nothing going on? Has the TechMeme conversation dried up, as Robert Scoble entertainingly baits? Are FriendFeed conversations more viral and link-inducing? Of course. There’s nothing like a few days off to cull the herd and make it achingly clear how parochial the “news” can become. But let’s use the quiet after the cherry bombs subside to measure how far or not we’ve come.
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Chris DeWolfe, Sean Parker and Jeff Weiner Join TechCrunch50 Expert Panel
We’re excited to announce Chris DeWolfe, Sean Parker and Jeff Weiner will be joining our lineup of TechCrunch50 expert panelists. They, along with Marc Andreessen, Roelof Botha, Ron Conway, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg and Yossi Vardi will be judging and questioning the fifty startups selected to participate in TechCrunch50.
TechCrunch50 is our annual conference where fifty new startups will launch over three days. There will also be a number of topical panels and workshops. The event will be held at the San Francisco Design Center on September 8 – 10. More details on the conference can be found here.
There will be 24 experts in all, more will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets for the event can be purchased here (early bird pricing is available until July 15). The submission process to launch your startup is here.
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Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is the co-founder and chief executive officer of MySpace.com, the leading online lifestyle portal. DeWolfe, alongside co-founder and president, Tom Anderson, created a new platform for a generation to communicate and discover culture based around the self expression and connectivity of the site’s 110 million active users. As MySpace’s CEO, DeWolfe is responsible for all aspects of the site’s strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Along the way, DeWolfe has led strategic initiatives that have extended the site’s reach into a number of vertical categories – such as online video (MySpaceTV), politics (MySpace Impact), news, music and film – and at present a total of 29 international markets. Under DeWolfe’s leadership, MySpace has grown exponentially since its launch in 2004, with an average of 300,000 new users signing up daily. More than 70 million people in the U.S. visit the site each month, creating a user composition that includes politicians, bands, filmmakers, comedians, photographers, and people wanting to communicate with friends and plan their social lives. Crunchbase profile. |
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Sean Parker
Sean Parker is the co-founder and Chairman of Causes on Facebook and MySpace, a new network that aims to enable large-scale political and social activism on the Internet. Sean is also a Managing Partner at The Founders Fund, an early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco . Previously, Sean was the co-founder of the category defining Web ventures Napster, Plaxo, and Facebook. At Napster, Sean helped to design the Napster client software and led the company’s initial financing and strategy. Under Sean’s leadership, Napster became the fastest adopted client software application in history. Following Napster, Sean co-founded and served as President of Plaxo, where he pioneered the viral engineering techniques used to deploy Plaxo’s flagship smart address book product, ultimately acquiring more than 15 million users. In 2004, Sean left Plaxo to become the founding President of Facebook, one of the most rapidly growing sites on the Internet today. Sean sits on the boards of several private companies. Crunchbase profile. |
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Jeff Weiner
Jeff Weiner is the Executive Vice President of Yahoo!’s Network Division. Yahoo!’s global reach of over half a billion users worldwide serves as the foundation for the division’s objective to be the leading starting point on the Web for the most consumers. In his current role, Weiner oversees the company’s category leading consumer web products, including Yahoo.com and My Yahoo!; Communications and Community products including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, and Flickr; Search products including Yahoo! Web Search, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Local; and Media, including Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Entertainment properties. From 2002 to 2006, Weiner served as Senior Vice President overseeing the Yahoo! Search and Marketplaces division. Beginning in November 2005, Weiner added responsibilities for Yahoo! Search Marketing and Yahoo! Small Business. Prior to Yahoo!, Weiner was the co-founder of Windsor Digital, a private equity firm focused on digital and media investments. From 1994 to 2000, he worked at Warner Bros., where he helped conceive the initial plan for Warner Bros. Online and played a key role in developing and overseeing the division. Crunchbase profile. |
Additionally, many thanks to our partners: Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Fenwick & West, Perkins Coie, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft.
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The New CrunchBar, Upcoming Conferences, and Thanks to TechCrunch Sponsors
The New CrunchBar
We are pleased to announce a new TechCrunch sponsor.
Conduit has deployed a new TechCrunch community toolbar (dubbed the “CrunchBar”) that includes:
- A newsreader with RSS feeds for every TechCrunch network website to stay on top of our news no matter where it breaks
- Direct access to TechCrunch podcasts (catch up with the Gillmor Gang, for example, now recorded daily Monday through Friday)
- Flickr and YouTube gadgets with TechCrunch photos and videos (plus search and feeds of all Flickr and YouTube content)
- Follow TechCrunch on Twitter and send tweets right from the CrunchBar
- TechCrunch desktop alerts (get alerts when tickets are released for TechCrunch MeetUps, etc.)
- Google web search and search for all of the TechCrunch network’s websites
In addition to these pre-defined tools, you can customize the CrunchBar to add local weather, favorite online radio stations, an email inbox notifier for all your accounts, and more in the future. The CrunchBar is a browser plug-in supported by Firefox and Internet Explorer. Try it out and you might never miss another TechCrunch breaking headline.
Upcoming Conferences
Check out these upcoming conferences:
OReilly’s Graphing Social Patterns, June 9-10 in Washington, DC. Use “gspe08tech” for a 15% registration discount. Thanks, OReilly, for giving away two free tickets to the conference to TechCrunch readers.
Supernova, June 16-18 in San Francisco, CA. TechCrunch readers automatically receive a $200 discount here. Come join TechCrunch as we co-host the Mobile Connections forum with Kevin Werbach Monday night at the conference.
OReilly’s Velocity Conference, June 23-24 in Burlingame, CA. Use “vel08tech” for a 15% registration discount.
TechCrunch Sponsors
Thanks also to our great group of sponsors who make reading TechCrunch possible.
Angelsoft, network to angel investors
Rackspace, hosting services
ScribeFire, Firefox extension for integrated blogging in your broswer
eBuddy, web-services meta instant messenger
BoonEx, community software
RaiseCapital, connecting entrepreneurs and investors online
MediaTemple, TechCrunch’s own hosting provider
Interested in becoming a TechCrunch sponsor? See details here or contact Heather Harde.
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One Prediction We Got Right: The Presidential Nominees
Six months ago, we went out on a limb and endorsed Barack Obama and John McCain as the most tech-friendly candidates of each political party. McCain clinched the Republican nomination long ago, and now with Obama as the presumptive nominee for the Democrats, those endorsements are getting some renewed attention. Today, the LA Times wrote a lengthy article on Michael and his efforts to make technology policy part of the national debate.
The story also notes:
Arrington also claims the distinction of predicting the presumptive nominees from both parties back in January when the outcome was far from certain.
So you see, we’re not always wrong.
Seriously, if you are interested in the behind-the-scenes story of how we got Obama, McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich to answer serious questions about technology from a blog, read the article.
And, more importantly, now that the general election has started, what should we push the candidates on next?
See the full coverage of the TechCrunch Tech President Primaries here.
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Introducing A New TechCrunch Video Project: Elevator Pitches
We get a ton of pitches at TechCrunch every single day. It is a deluge we can hardly keep up with. Some are amusing, some are horrible, and a select few rise to the level of deserving a post. The large majority, though, never see the light of day. We thought: Why not let startups connect directly with our audience, and let the audience decide which ideas are worthy and which ones are not?
So today we are launching a little video project here at TechCrunch called Elevator Pitches. The premise is pretty simple: Startup founders and CEOs give us a 60-second video pitch about their companies, and our audience (that would be you) votes them up or down. You can think of it as a YouTube for elevator pitches (and, in fact, we are hosting the videos on YouTube and simply embedding them on the site).
I’ve hinted at this project before, but earlier today I spilled the beans at a panel I was on at NYU for Internet Week. Update: Allen Stern of CenterNetworks, who attended the panel, posted this clip on YouTube of me making the announcement:
This is very much a bare-bones beta, and we plan on adding more features and videos as we go. There are about 30 videos right now that we’ve captured at TechCrunch events. Some standouts include ones from Creative Citizen, Kongregate, Meebo, Netvibes, ProductWiki, Ribbit, SmugMug, Songza, and Ugobe. I’ve embedded two of them below.
Please tell us what you like and what you’d like to see. As we get more submissions, we’ll be highlighting the highest-ranked pitches on TechCrunch on a regular basis.
For startups who want to get on the site, right now the easiest way to submit a pitch is to upload a video no longer than 60 seconds to YouTube, Blip.tv or your favorite video-sharing site, tag it “tcpitch,” and send us an email to pitches[at]techcrunch[dot]com telling us where to find it. (Don’t worry, this process will be automated soon). We will also continue to videotape pitches at TechCrunch MeetUps and conferences.
Currently, we are only accepting pitches from CEOs or founders of existing startups and creative non-profits. The pitch should convey both what your startup’s product does and how you plan to make money. (More details here). Eventually, we’ll open it up to anyone who wants to pitch an idea and get feedback, even ones that are only at a conceptual phase.
This has been a pet project of mine for a few months, but it would have never happened without the work of several collaborators. To give the videos a consistent look and feel, BeFunky is putting them through a pre-release version of its Video Cartoonizer. The video editing was done by Lee Cummings. Brian Solis and his camera crew at bub.blicio.us also shot some of the videos for us. Our own Mark Hendrickson designed the site, and our developers Mark McGranaghan and Henry Work did the back-end work in their spare time. The site is built on Ruby on Rails.
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