Our seventh TechCrunch party, held at August Capital two months ago, was a blast. Over 800 attendees sipped wine, checked out some new companies and watched a nearly naked man streak through the more fully dressed attendees.
We will be announcing TechCrunch 8, a party in New York, in the next week or so. The venue and date are 90% nailed down. If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please email Jeanne Logozzo for details.
Thank You To TechCrunch 7 Sponsors
We had an excellent group of sponsors for TechCrunch 7. Some information on many of their companies and products are below (this is sponsored text).
Spotlight: FiveRuns and Stash Space
FiveRuns — Web 2.0 Systems Management
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StashSpace is powered by HomeMovie.com; the service offers a way to easily take video recordings from a variety of digital devices and create active archives that can be shared with personal communities. It comes with a suite of storage, tagging, editing and broadcasting features for creating custom videos that can be accessed only by the specified communities. Community members may also download the homemade videos to iPods, order DVDs, or play it online. A special feature, called StashFeed, also allows users to create video feeds for other personal online Web spaces, such as MySpace and Weblogs. Adding new videos, or editing existing ones in StashSpace will automatically update the files in these other spaces. See Marshall’s writeup on StashSpace here.
Product Demo Roundup:
ConceptShare is a new Web application for sharing visual designs with others for the purpose of gathering and managing effective feedback by using a rich media interface for commenting, and marking up designs of all kinds.
Flock is an innovative social web browser that strives to integrate all that’s cool about the Web.
Genius, creator of SalesGenius, instantly delivers individual e-mail open information and web visit data directly to those who are responsible for customer engagement: front-line sales and marketing professionals.
Meez enables users to quickly build animated avatars that can be used all over the internet: community profiles, IM, blogs and more.
oDesk : Hire Alpha Geeks From Around The World…and watch them go to work
Plazes is the world´s first geo-location community bringing physical presence to the Web. Users can share their whereabouts and favorite locations with friends and family and explore what´s nearby while on the move.
Podango is a just-launched service that will enable a new model for aggregating podcast content by allowing “station directors” to program topic-specific podcast channels, and to recruit their own talent to be the podcasters.
Real Time Matrix — Matching and delivering personally relevant content from the Web the instant it is published.
SoonR - SoonR’s AnyTime storage beta provides mobile and remote Web access to data stored on computers, even when the source computer is not connected to the internet or turned off!
We are pleased to let you know about a special product offer for TechCrunch readers only! You may receive SoonR’s AnyTime service FREE by sending an email to: song@soonr.com, and including the phrase, “I want it AnyTime.”
TheFind is a soon-to-launch shopping search engine that strives to find every product for sale online and delivers the very best, most targeted products right on the first page of results — TechCrunch readers may sign up now.
Wink is the Social Search Engine that uses people’s contributions and feedback (like bookmarking, rating, and organizing links) to make it easier to find and share current, relevant results.
If only, I can attend.
TechCrunch 7 was a blast indeed. You guys should come to Europe for 9th one.
I’m very much looking forward to this event. Unfortunately, I was not able to make it to California for the previous party, but I will gladly attend this one held in New York City.
I look forward to meeting you.
Mike,
I love the ideas of Techcruch parties, so please dont get me wrong before I write this: can you please plan your parties further in advance. I’d love to attend one of these, but living in the arse end of the world ™ it takes me 2-3 days to travel to the states…and one cant plan to attend one of these with 1 weeks notice. So if not for this one, please for future events, give me at least 3-4 weeks notice, if only so I can get there, or even email me privately…I’m sure I can add to the fun of any event you have…at least that’s what my friends say
Correction: I re-read this, I’m guessing it’s not 1 week away, although what I wrote still hold true, Mike, give us 3-4 weeks…please
Great to hear that you are heading to New York!
Alex
The tentative date, not final, is Nov. 16…6 weeks from now.
Thanks Mike, I’m now in trying to get there mode. Touch wood I’ll be there on Nov 16. I take it though that NY in November is cold….I’ll have to buy some cold weather gear…and should I expect snow? Only seen that once in my life (when I was 10..I’m now 31) so I’m also looking forward to the snow part
I second the motion to come to Europe. Paris is the perfect place. I can even help with logistics, sponsors and so forth.
woulda been nice to schedule this near a major conference like ad:tech which is held 6-8 nov.
This should be fun.
Michael, thank you for bringing the party to NYC. We don’t get the major geek events around here that we should, and I’m glad to see the Apple get some good stuff. Now I just have to make sure I don’t miss the RSVP list before it fills up.
Oh, suggestion: Do not release the RSVP list on the next two Friday, Saturdays or Sundays. It is a Jewish holiday, and New York has a ton of Jews who would be completely unable to RSVP.
First Google opens a massive office, now TechCrunch is coming to town. Looks like fall 2006 will be the revival of Silicon Alley.
Agreed - thanks for bringing it to NYC. I’ll DEFINITELY be there if I can get on the list…
Mike, how much are invites going for on the gray market now? How much to be put at the top of the list?
Eagerly waiting…
Michael, I second the notion for scheduling this around the time of AdTech. I should think it will be easier then for you to get sponsors and advertisers involved then too, but perhaps tougher to find a space.
I’m excited about an east coast event…
Looking forward to the event, how and when do we sign up?
6 weeks notice.. now is the time to fix up our calendars!!
hope to make it!
HOTELS: If you’re coming in from out of town and want to be able to walk to the event - here’s a list of nearby hotels http://wink.com/Chelsea%2C_NY_.....ollections
this is an open collection, editable by anyone, so if you find another hotel in the area that’s not on the list - please add it. thx
Loved the party out west. Glad to hear it’s coming out east.
I work in NYC. It would be nice to attend, if I can get on the list. Thanks for holding it in NYC by the way.
*** SoonR AnyTime BETA REQUESTS ***** Please Read *****
Hey, thanks to all the people writing me to be part of the SoonR AnyTime Beta. I’ll get you set up, but you need to get a normal free SoonR account and forward your account name to me! After you do that, I can upgrade your account to the AnyTime beta.
I am getting flooded by folks who want to be in the beta but do not have accounts. I checked a bunch this morning and of the first 100, only about 4 people had accounts. I can’t do anything with the others as I can’t set up your phone number and login credentials.
Again, please set up a free SoonR account and then send your SoonR ID to me so that I can upgrade you to the AnyTime Beta. Just goto http://www.soonr.com and click on the Download link to begin. Thanks everyone, and I look forward to your feedback.
What can nextNY do to help?
Sorry…cruddy link… that’s nextNY
Looking forward to TC8. We are considering sponsoring TC8. We’ll contact Jeanne on that. Take care! John
Can I RSVP now?/
Can somebody write a little Web2.0 app to automatically sniff these parties out, register online before the whole thing is overbooked, put it on my calendar, review the list of attendees and find the people I need to meet, then contact these “must meet” attendees and suggest we meetup there? If it could also find some witty web2.0 jokes I can throw out during the party to compensate for my total lack of a personality it would be perfect. If you build it, not only can I guarantee you at least 1 customer (me), I can also virtually guarantee you a write-up in TechCrunch.
You can sign up for a pre-alpha launch at http://beg.2get.in
I hope I catch the signup in time I definitely don’t want to miss this.
Pubcon is November 14-17, 2006 …how about aweek later
It’s fun browsing through the sponsers.
Michael,
If you can make the event occur on Black Friday or Nov 30, that would be great!
Have I missed the announcement? I certainly want to attend.
Hey, Social Media Club NY would like to help spread the word. Contact me or Chris Heuer.
Any update on when we can expect the list to be available?
Would love to attend.
I actually own the domain 2get.in and could set up BEG.2get.IN if you like
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