Twitter Stream: Day One, TechCrunch 50

I was pretty talky yesterday at TechCrunch50.

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TC50 internet is down. Ha! 09:06 AM September 08, 2008 from twhirl

At #tc50 in the press section 09:06 AM September 08, 2008 from twhirl

@sarahcuda is getting way more hugs than me. I don’t think I can keep sitting next to her. #tc50 09:09 AM September 08, 2008 from twhirl in reply to sarahcuda

Just met Brian Alvey (@frankensite) for the first time, which is totally odd. I mean that we never met before. about 24 hours ago from twhirl

@bryanthatcher I am at #tc50 for the day, so no. about 24 hours ago from twhirl in reply to bryanthatcher

The Star-Spangled Banner? She bumbled the most appropriate word — “streaming” — in the song. #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl

Can you guys gets rid of the weird feedback on the stage? #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl

#Thryv - online banking for kids #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl

@StuartForsyth I shoul.d have said that about 24 hours ago from twhirl in reply to StuartForsyth

Retweeting @pahlkadot: Retweeting @bpm140: No lobby to con at #TC50. Wow. That’s one way to do it. about 24 hours ago from twhirl

#iThryv this is boring. aand don’t use sentences with “is, is” #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl

#iThryv Not a bank, but “is a platform that sits above a bank”? Mixed metaphor madness #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl
#iThryv teach your kids to be middleaged as quickly as possible. #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl
#iThryv trying to counter the “epidemic of financial ignorance in this country” Hmmm. Maybe that why he followed the national anthem? #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl

#hangout.net Virtual reality with jangling guitars? #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl

#hang.out second life knockoff? targeting kids? #tc50 about 24 hours ago from twhirl

#hangout.net I don’t care what brands they sign up, its dumb. thumbs down #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#blahgirls.com False start? South Park ish cartoon. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#blahgirls.com Ashton Kutchner - a dynamic, interactive celebrity/fan site. A blog network for celebrity nonsense. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#blahgirls.com this is incredibly horrible to sit through, although it might actually be successful. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#blahgirls.com I think Kutcher is conflating sock puppets with actual conversation. There is a lot of poop in this preso. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#blahgirls. He’s really pitching #Catalyst which is the company behind this puerile nonsense. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#blahblahblah I guess its called blahblahblah, not the #blahgirls. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#tc50 three demos in and I haven’t seen a hit yet, just people that have lots of money. about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#tweegee ‘the home of social activities for tweens’ #tc20 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#tweegee live tweens spouting canned spontaneity on stage. ‘the email is sooo cooool!’ #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#tweegee It’s a fear play: he keeps saying how safe it is. So this is pitched to parents, right? #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#tweegee ‘I sooo love the IM! Its soooo awesome! I built my own Brett Favre site!’ #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

@bernardmoon yes, really #tc50 about 23 hours ago from twhirl in reply to bernardmoon

#tweegee Safety: Full human moderation… safety practices movies. Fear play. The web is sooo dangerous… #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#tweegee Barf #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

Chad Hurley - Likes #blahblahblah #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#tc50 Marrissa Mayer — Likes #hangout.net about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

Mayer - what’s the business model of #iThryv? Is it good to bombard kids with credit cards? #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#iThryv will sell to banks, and help them worm their way into the youngsters dna. #dna about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

Ron Conway most likely to invest in #iThryv. For the others, a dilemma: how to get kids to drop what they are already doing? #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

Kutchner I don’t want to take people from YouTube or MySpace, we can cohabit. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

@johnbradford I agree. But that’s #iThryv ‘s pitch #tc50 about 23 hours ago from twhirl in reply to johnbradford

@fein tell all your friends #tc50 about 23 hours ago from twhirl in reply to fein

Dan Farber Thinks #hangout.net is innovative? Doesn’t get #Tweegee #tc50 about 23 hours ago from twhirl

#tweegee uses a t9ish whitelist so tweens can actually communicate but not reveal phone numbers… #tc50 about 23 hours ago from twhirl

#iThryv “we want to help, the housing crisis for example, a lot of financial ignorance” oh yes, all those kids in foreclosure? #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

Mayer thinks #iThryv is unrealistic, esp the business plans. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

#iThryv and #tweegee are really targeting parents, and kids just won’t care. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

Conway “a new billion $ market emerging: product placement.” I agree, although it’s more likely to be in the form of social commerce. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from Twiddict

@pamsykes Wow. Iffy start. #tc50 about 23 hours ago from twhirl in reply to pamsykes

#dotspots ‘the wisdom of crowds… everything’ ‘I have been a fan of the wisdom of crowds for a very long time.’ Hmmm. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

@metarand Mayer meant the business plan feature within #iThryv — kids don’t think in ‘biz plans’ — seems very proscriptive product #tc50 about 22 hours ago from twhirl in reply to metarand

#dotspots A deus ex machina buildup to the hook: a little dot appears on the AP news story that pissed him off #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#dotspots will automatically find other sites that are semantically similar, like other sites publishing the same AP piece #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#dotspots Looks like a Third Voice reprise, but this is a feature not a company. Like something that could be added to Disqus perhaps. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#dotspots Not really a wisdom of crowds solution, just a web annotation/comment sharing system. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#angstro News about people in your business network #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#angstro the Salim and Rohit show #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#angstro I like this service. A winner for me. plus I am on the screen as someone in his netwrok. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#angstro A little bit of a torrent of truisms ‘its not what you know, but who you know!’ but I still like it. A lot. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#livehit A 3d representation of various web pages, in case you’d like to go where more people are right now. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#livehit its all about what’s hot, what’s popular. Sigh. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

@pahlkadot you betcha #tc50 about 22 hours ago from twhirl in reply to pahlkadot

#quantthenews as in “I qwant the news’? #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#stockmood testing the ‘mood’ associated with a stock based on what is being said in the news #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#stockmood ‘we have computers reading the news’ uses artificial intelligence to discern positive and negative mood #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#stockmood Alerts notify on price moves #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#stockmood ‘deep statistical analysis’ oh it’s real deep! #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#stockmood ‘We have a really really good ability to time the market’ Why not just play the market then? Why share the wealth? #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

#stockmood ‘its not a full trading system. There would have to be a lot more done for that.’ So, its a half-assed trading system? #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

Mayer likes dotspots and Angstro: business model? Livehit is too much work. Stockmood too complex for ave person too simple for pros. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

@SukiFuller Right. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from twhirl in reply to SukiFuller

Dan Farber Livehit = new sort of optimization, moving stuff around on surface. Angstro = good, feature for LinkedIn? #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

Khare - hints at more community features for Angstro #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

Conway Savvy people will want to know how Stockmood works before they believe in it. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

Hurley likes what Livehit is burrowing into, although what it is today might not be right #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

Dotspots is both a browser extension or javascript embedded in the sire. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

Mayer - A new initiative at Google to bring old newspapers online. Generations of old news. #tc50 about 22 hours ago from Twiddict

Angels chiming in on short brief email as the best way to approach them #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

Calacanis - Research your target weel; same as PR pitching #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

Yossi - money is going to be frozen, but angels will be able to select top of the deal flow #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

Yossi - no relationship between creativity and insight and the state of the stock market. #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

Conway - Deal flow is still up, and entrepreneurs are stilling pitching. Going to be a chill, but not a nuclear winter. #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

quoted Catarina Fake ‘All satellite and no planet.’ #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

Cost of building something continues to go down. #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

Conway wotd ‘Liftoff’ funding - like Y combinator or Tech Stars. #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

Calacanis and Conway - SF is the place to be. #tc50 about 21 hours ago from Twiddict

where’s @charleneli? I am searching for her at the lunch area. #tc50 about 20 hours ago from Twiddict

#OpenTrace calculate the environmental impact of any product activity, like homemade bread #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

#OpenTrace But how will they get the information, like what trucking company carries the salt that is added to someone’s bread? Crazy! #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

#tc50 I missed most of the panel… so I don’t understand this critique at the end about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Andreesen - likes #Yammer - virality? #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Andreessen - LIkes OpenTrace #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Benioff likes all of them. For different reasons. #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

@zemote Cool. I will try to fool with it. about 18 hours ago from twhirl in reply to zemote

Yossi - 97% of the lawyers make it bad for the rest of them #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Panel rebels, wants to change the format to one by on critique of companies. #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Chris DeWolf, MySpace #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Arrington - Dating Paris Hilton? #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Revenue growth: growth to $900M. Won’t confirm how much in MySpace #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Arrington comments on a bunch of activities where MySpace opened up instead of blocking #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

Google gears integration now for MySpace messaging, but will soon have a time machine for profiles. #tc50 about 18 hours ago from Twiddict

MySpace Music is launching this month, building community features: download, stream, ringtones. Bubbling pop culture up to the top #tc50 about 17 hours ago from Twiddict

MySpace Music streaming will be free, no audio ads in music; obviously taking a run at iTunes. #tc50 about 17 hours ago from Twiddict

MySpace Music will sell tickets, and tshirts, etc, in a subsequent iteration #tc50 about 17 hours ago from Twiddict

Looking for a CEO for MySpace Music. #tc50 about 17 hours ago from Twiddict

The rebellious panel has had their way: American Idol style. #tc50 about 17 hours ago from Twiddict

#Copybox ‘the copywriter’s copybox’ #tc50 about 17 hours ago from Twiddict

@geekgrl Yes #tc50 about 17 hours ago from twhirl in reply to geekgrl

#aggregateMarketing - serve rich navigatable ads in place #tc50 about 17 hours ago from Twiddict

@geekgrl nope. about 17 hours ago from twhirl in reply to geekgrl

So @Pistachio launched her new company today with only some twitter fanfare. http://twurl.nl/5sbyyc about 17 hours ago from twhirl

I admit it. I have hit my limit. I need to start drinking. #tc50 about 16 hours ago from Twiddict

#adrocket - confusing market with many moving parts; panel is baffled. #tc50 about 16 hours ago from Twiddict

#OtherInbox email overload tool #tc50 about 16 hours ago from Twiddict

#otherinbox create one-off email addresses for all services. #tc50 about 16 hours ago from Twiddict

#otherinbox - looks like a crowd pleaser #tc50 about 16 hours ago from Twiddict

I couldn’t muster the umph to do the party. #tc50 about 10 hours ago from twhirl