At the #crunchup

First panel is on discussing what real-time is. Spontaneous content that’s searchable and filterable is opening up a whole new layer to the web.

What you do with it after?

Follow my iPhone updates to learn more. (major wireless issues at the #crunchup)

There’s going to be more demand to filter the stream of content.

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Angel investors looking to invest in entrepreneur first, then intellectual content after.

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Focus is on spontaneous content that can be manipulated and monitized.

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“Whatever this is…it’s in the early, early days. This is Google in 1998.” — Ron Conway

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Ron Conway is super smart and quickly became the center of the first panel discussion. I like his use of the phrase spontaneous content.

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The discussion has turned to John Borthwick, who is speaking about bit.ly, real-time data, and the ecosystem relationship with Twitter. Very insightful thinker.

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We need a new term for real-time, streaming content. A bit of back and forth bewteen Arrington and Conway about this.

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Back to talking about monitizing Twitter.

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Borthwick is behind someecards, too? Sheesh.

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Awesome first panel. (Wifi still dead.)

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600 people at the #crunchup.

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Now up:

Jack Dorsey, Twitter
Chris Cox, Facebook
Bret Taylor, Friendfeed
Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)

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Chris Cox says Facebook evolved to fill user needs and promote more realistic conversation.

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Bret Taylor talks about fostering dicussions in the awesomeness that is Friendfeed. (I heart the friendfeed design/ux)

“Trying to bring back the shared experience…like Seinfeld.”

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Facebook redesign–trying to balance the aggregated view with real-time. Use-case, observing use patterns, and listening to user reactions inform design. Continue to work and focus on. How to present news from when you last logged in vs. the newness at the moment.

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Friendfeed will move more towards federation versus aggregation.

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“Our view has always been that Facebook is a map and graph of connections.” — Chris Cox

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Twitter suggested as possible Nobel Prize recipient???

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Up next:

WordPress, Andy Skelton
Netvibes, Freddy Mini
Meebo, Sandy Jen
AOL, Frank Gruber
Adobe Wave, John Shapiro
Additional STEALTH demos

Huge demo issues due to wireless problems. Yawn. Feel bad for Andy Skelton.

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Pubsubhubbub turns any rss into a live stream.

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Netvibes up now…moving rss towards real-time dashboards.

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Finally! Andy Skelton is up with web access! He’s talking about making blogs a place to be able to have live conversation.

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And now, ladies and gents, Sandy Jen from Meebo talking about being able to have real time views of what all of your friends are doing and saying to you across multiple platforms.

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Now AOL’s Frank Gruber is talking about what’s doing with real-time for AIM…yes, that AOL and that AIM.

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TechCrunch should have had someone from Flock here to talk about integrating real-time streams into a browser setting. Would have liked to have heard their perspective.

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John Shapiro now demoing the Adobe Wave. Let’s you follow updates from sites in real time. Is this really a huge advantage over RSS???

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Break!!!

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Had a search panic during the search panel discussion. I lost my video camera and had to search the crowd with no luck. Then, when I was about to give up, I looked down and there it was. Yay! That’s real-time search results.

Now filming the Friendfeed “debate.”

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Disappointing debate since we couldn’t hear much of Scoble. But good discussion between Arrington and Bret Taylor.

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Qik is opening their API to the public.

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JS.Kit introducing ECHO — a drop-in, real-time streaming replacement to blog commenting.

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12seconds.com now has an iPhone app that will let you send video messages to your Twitter contacts and hit them up with a push notification. It’s really pretty cool looking. Not in the AppStore yet, should be soon.

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tunein.com creates channels from your microblogging accounts to help you get more value out of the stream.

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Magma (from the founder of RocketBoom.com) a new way to explore and find video. Aggregated by popularity, site, and comments.

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Salesforce has powerful new apps to find out customers are having problems with online and are discussing in social forums and CRM apps on twitter to monitor and respond to it, but also to capture the conversation and push out the solutions coming from social contacts.

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Bantam Networks offers another take on social CRM. Public beta is an online workspace for business teams.

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Twitter Sparq claims to be like AdWords for Twitter. You know those little adds on Twitter that have popped up below your followers? That’s them.

Get free ads at sparq.socialmedia.com

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Twitturly InView. Real-time notification and Analytics service. Dude seems nice, but not a public speaker.

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Microsoft Silverlight version 3! Whoohoo!!! Insert sarcasm mark here.

Seriously, cool technology, but my brain just wonders about the MS identity and who they are as a brand. Do they have a clue? Cause I don’t.

Ohhhh out of browser. Shiny wowness.

“Feel free to play along with yourselves.” Interesting word choice.

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Real Time Business

• Porter Gale, Virgin America
• John Ham, Ustream
• Eric Marcoullier, Gnip
• Ross Mayfield, SocialText
• David Sacks, Yammer
• Maynard Webb, LiveOps
• Tim Young, SocialCast

“Before brands can collaborate externally with social media, they need to learn how to collaborate with themselves.” — Ross Mayfield

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Up next:

Real Time Roundtable

• Chris Cox, Facebook
• Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeck
• Nick Halstead, Tweetmeme
• David Hornik, August Capital
• Loic LeMeur, Seesmic
• Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft
• Kevin Marks, activity stream junkie
• Bret Taylor, Friendfeed
• Max Ventilla, Aardvark
• Craig Walker, Google
• Andreas Weigend, Stanford and Berkeley
• George Zachary, Charles River Ventures
• Steve Gillmor, TechCrunchIT
• Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch

Got some great footage of the final panel discussion. Gillmor and Schonfeld do a supurb job moderating. Come back soon to check it out.

Tagged as: #crunchup, techcrunch