For the past few weeks, TechCrunchIT editor Steve Gillmor and I have been pulling together speakers and demos for our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp this Friday. What started as a roundtable and a few demos, quickly grew into a full-fledged mini-conference with 45 speakers, including nearly 20 startup and product demos. Other than TechCrunch50, I’ve never seen so many CEOs and companies begging to be present at a conference before.
It barely fits into one day, but we’re gonna pack it in. The CrunchUp is nearly sold out, with nearly 400 attendees signed up so far. There are about 20 tickets left. (You can buy one here for $295, and is also the only way left to get into our annual August Capital Summer party). Some people in Silicon Valley are already complaining about the name Real-Time Stream, so we’ll give away a ticket to whoever can come up with the best alternative name in comments.
I like Real-Time Stream because it captures two important trends which are hitting critical mass right now on the Web: the increasing emphasis on instantaneous information and different strategies for managing and presenting that information in streams rather than traditional Web pages. As I wrote when we kicked this off a month ago:
What do we mean by the real-time stream? It’s popping up nearly everywhere you care to look. Information on the Web is coming to us increasingly in streams. Twitter kicked off the shift, but everyone from Facebook to FriendFeed to Google to AOL is quickly adopting the information stream as a dominant mechanism for distributing data to people exactly when it is produced. As I’ve written before: “The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.” RSS is dead
. Long live the stream.
Come up with a better name for the Real-Time Stream and we’ll give you a free ticket to attend. The CrunchUp agenda is below. There will be panels on investing in real-time startups, the emerging stream platforms, real-time search, and how businesses are adapting from a marketing and customer relationship perspective. I’m equally excited about the demos, which I’ve been previewing. They will include never-before-seen stream readers (from Seesmic and others), new real-time search engines (Wowd), real-time media demos (Magma), mobile video (Qik), real-time CRM (Salesforce, Bantam), and ways to speed up RSS (Wordpress, Netvibes, and more).
Gaping Void’s Hugh MacLeod designed his 4th commemorative lithograph in honor of our event, “dream big.” It’s certainly inspiring. We’ll live auction one special serigraph during the CrunchUp with proceeds to benefit Electronic Frontier Foundation.
And for those of you who can’t get a ticket, we’ll be streaming the whole conference live courtesy of UStream. How couldn’t we? We’re going to be pulling 36MB of bandwith into the Fox Theater for the conference. Meraki will be managing the wireless network for attendees. ToxBox will help us bring remote participants such as Robert Scoble, who will be in London, via video chat. If you Tweet about or from the CrunchUp, please use the hashtag #crunchup. We’ll be using Tinker, from Glam Media Labs, to put up questions and comments from the audience (both live and virtual) who Tweet out that hashtag. And CC:Betty will create a conversation space to organize and archive all the real-time chatter about the event.
CrunchUp
Friday, July 10
9:00 am – 4:45 pm
Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City
Get CrunchUp tickets for $295, which include expedited check-in to the August Capital party, 2480 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, 5:30 – 10:00 pm. Press contact: Daniel Brusilovsky
9:00 – 9:45 am
The Real Time Opportunity
Q&A with leading angel investors John Borthwick and Ron Conway, moderated by Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor.
9:45 – 10:30 am
The Real Time Moment
- Jack Dorsey, Twitter
- Chris Cox, Facebook
- Bret Taylor, Friendfeed
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)
10:30 – 10:55
Real Time Communication Demos
- Wordpress, Andy Skelton
- RSS Hub (pubsubhubbub), Brad Fitzpatrick & Brett Slatkin
- Netvibes, Freddy Mini
- Meebo, Sandy Jen
- AOL, Frank Gruber
- Adobe Wave, John Shapiro
10:55 – 11:05 am
Break
11:05 – 11:30
Real Time Application Demos
- Seesmic, Loic Le Meur
- Thing Labs, Jason Shellen
- Lazyfeed, Ethan Gahng
- PeopleBrowsr, Jodee Rich
- Wowd, Boris Agapiev
11:30 – 12:15 pm
Real Time Search
- Gerry Campbell, Collecta
- Matt Cutts, Google
- Kimbal Musk, OneRiot
- Vipul Ved Prakash, Topsy
- Edo Segal, Investor and founder Relegance
- Sean Suchter, Microsoft
- Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)
12:15 – 12:30 pm
Real Time Mobs
Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble talk about the darker side of the stream
12:30 – 1:45 pm
Lunch
1:45 – 2:15 pm
Real Time Media Demos
- 12Seconds.tv, Sol Lipman
- Qik, Bhaskar Roy
- Magma, Andrew Baron
- Additional STEALTH demos
2:15 – 2:30 pm
Business Demos
- SocialMedia, Somrat Niyogi
- Twitturly, Joel Strellner
- Bantam, John Rourke
- Salesforce, Kraig Swensrud
- Microsoft Silverlight
2:30 – 3:15 pm
Real Time Business
- Porter Gale, Virgin America
- John Ham, Ustream
- Eric Marcoullier, Gnip
- Ross Mayfield, SocialText
- David Sacks, Yammer
- Max Ventilla, Aardvark
- Maynard Webb, LiveOps
- Tim Young, SocialCast
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch (moderator)
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 – 4:45 pm
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
- Craig Walker, Google
- Andreas Weigend, Stanford and Berkeley
- George Zachary, Charles River Ventures
- Steve Gillmor, TechCrunchIT
- Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch
More CrunchUp details are here.
Press, please email Daniel Brusilovsky for press consideration to attend the CrunchUp and August Capital outing.
Big Time Thank Yous to Our CrunchUp Sponsors
Product Sponsors: Glam Media Lab’s Tinker live conversation moderation, Tokbox live video chat, Ustream live video streaming, Bantam Live, Charles River Ventures, Microsoft BizSpark and mailspace cc:Betty.
Demonstration Sponsors: Seesmic, OneRiot, PeopleBrowsr, Mashery, IDrive, Sun Start-Up Essentials, Meraki, SocialFeet, Tapulous, Loopt, Grey Goose Vodka, Future Works, Gaping Void, Stormhoek Wines, Silver Moon Desserts, Friendster, LifeIO, and Groovy.
Event Sponsors: Eventbrite for ticketing and MediaTemple for hosting, Topix, Orange, AIM/AOL, ReTargeter, Coveroo, Pandora.
Please contact Jeanne Logozzo or Heather Harde if you want to sneak into one of our last few sponsor tables. Additional details here.
Great to hear you’ll be streaming it for those of us who can’t be in the area.
Data Currents
Info Currents
Immediacy Computing
Information Flow Computing
RTS is pretty good though..
How about, “The Ubiquitous Connection” or something, i’m playing with some names
What about CrunchTime?
live river crunchup -
onNow
TimeCrunch
Or how about just “the current”. Deals with the “nowness” and the “stream”.
How about dataRain, realtime info reminds me of being out in the rain with you mouth open, depending on your location the taste, temp, intensity is different, but you can’t catch it all.
How about “Captain Crunchup”?
“Published Lifestream Conference”
I think of email as my private life, and twitter/FB etc. as my published life.
The “On The Fly – Ball”
“Living the Stream” (a play on “Living the Dream”).
What about Web4D, or is that too pedantic? (4D because the 4th dimension is time!)
Great line up!
This part is funny!
Erick said: “I’ve never seen so many CEOs and companies begging…”
TC Website (top of page): ”
Do not panic. We accept late submissions for TechCrunch50, but please submit soon.”
I know these are different events. But, gave me a giggle.
How about Meme Stream?
+1
at least it rhymes
The “Convergence of Current” Conference?
maybe…
active content stream
or
active content push
“Now in Real Time”
It really defines how the Internet’s evolved. Where we once relied on feeds and static news websites to get information, we now have applications like Tweetdeck popping up giving micro-updates that fill us in on whatever we subscribe to. All of which we are very prone to check, since they’re snippets that feed into our desire for quick information.
The challenge is how people should deal with this persistent stream (an important consideration, as feed subscriptions will only grow).
The “real-time” era is now.
Cool idea. Some punctuation would further drive the point home, like “Now, in Real-Time”, “Now! In Real-Time”, “Now: In Real-Time”, or “@Now: In Real-Time”.
“Stream Living”
“Life on the Stream” or “Life in the Stream”
“Live the Stream”
or perhaps even simpler:
the Active Content CrunchUp
in a way, the ‘Real-time stream’ can be described as the combo of web-based ajaxy/’2.0′ forums and instant-messaging.
its all in the presentation. self-updating websites/webapps make users happy.
or The Active Flow CrunchUp
Quadruplor (Latin) to be an informant.
yeah, that’s catchy
StreamCrunch
CurrentCrunch
I like “the Current” as well…
Amazing line up. Will make my special double baked potato skins for event.
Live Feed
Current Trends
Current Friend Trends
Active Trends
Active Stream
Insta-Update
Instant Update
quick stream
live stream
live online
live flow – my favorite
running live
speed stream – ss for short
real flow
the stream right now
the stream for now???
real time rocket – Are you riding it???
real time river – some companies just can’t stay a float
current stream
the flow
the stream
thats about all I got for now hope you like them (some are just for jokes)
Portal
Don’t you already have a ticket?
Wellspring
It’s flowing, and you’re at the source.
Its not about JUST NOW… its also about the NEXT…
So I would say:
CrunchUp: The Next Stream
Taco Crunch
At The Speed of Crunch.
Heavy Water (yes, a reference to The Flash)
Junction (A TechCrunch Real-Time Function)
“Stream Junction”
There ya go
“Status: Crunching”
Occurrence (A TechCrunch Real-Time Function event)
Synchronicity (A TechCrunch Real-Time Function event and yeah… Police reference)
Maelstrom (A TechCrunch Real-Time Function event and yeah… an obscure reference)
Intersection (A TechCrunch Real-Time Function event and yeah… an obscure reference)
CrunchUp Discovery Live
How about – “Go with the Flow”?
1. Live Stir-ream
2. Zero lag Crunchup
3. BitsnBuffer CrunchUp
“Streal Time” as in streaming real time.
Along the lines of the word play of classifying freemium for “free and premium”
CrunchUp: Distributed Lifestreaming
CrunchUp: Ubiquitous Socialstreaming
CrunchUp: Mastering the Instant Socialstream
CrunchUp: World-Wide Socialstreaming (WWS)
CrunchNow
Wow!!!
If I look at the top picture, and I stare at it for some time…
…I can see Mike Arrington kissing Leo Laporte…
…how WEIRD is that!!!!!
What about CrunchLive?
Status 2 Status could also work
StreamUs
Streaming, Now
Streaming Web
Current Currents
CurrentS Crunch
InFlow
The flow of information…
I like the term “Live Feed” or “Live Feeds”.
(This may have been mentioned already, but I’m also in support of it).
“Live” refers to the real-time, instantaneous nature of updates. There’s already the term “Live Blogging”, so “live” seems to be legitimate and concise.
“Feed(s)”, of course, refers to the list of updates. Why “feeds”? Although Twitter is best known for this phenomena, Facebook’s “News Feed” was far more ubiquitous when it launched. Everyone who used Facebook was exposed to it. And people loved it. People loved it so much, that Paul Buchheit created “Friend Feed”. So “Feed” was the common term used by both Facebook and FriendFeed.
In summary, “Live Feed(s)” is concise, descriptive, and consistent with already similar jargon (”live blogging”, “news feed”).
aren’t you on an airplane? were you online? Virgin?
yeah, I wrote this in my #Officeinthesky
Feeds and Streams
How to Stream Content and Influence People
Not bad
@Riles WIN.
The best suggestion by far! I feel embarrassed that ‘CrunchNow’ was the best I could come up with.
On second thought, I withdraw my previous name suggestion (which wasn’t that good anyway) and think that we should just embrace the namelessness of it all.
http://www.sco....-the-trend.html