Update: We’ve got the photos up for you to check out.
Thank you to all of you who came out to support the 2009 Summer CrunchUp! We broke 600 attendees to the Real Time Stream CrunchUp, double our initial expectations, and we hosted lots more of you at the August Capital outing.
In typical TechCrunch style, it was a work-hard, play-hard day. Thank you to all our CrunchUp speakers for investing your time with us to talk about new trends, boundaries and your passions. Plus we fit in 22 new product highlights from start-ups and big internet companies alike.
If you missed the CrunchUp, the video is on the CrunchUp site, courtesy of Ustream. Both they and FutureWorks did an amazing job to help us stream and record Real Time for future use. We live blogged as much of the conference as possible. In case you missed yesterday:
The Real-Time Opportunity, including Ron Conway’s Top Ten List of Monetization Opportunities
The Real-Time Moment
Real-Time Search
Real-Time Mobs (and Syphilis)
Real-Time Business
Real-Time Roundtable
Demos and announcements. including:
Tweetdeck Funding
Microsoft Silverlight
PeopleBrowsr
Brizzly, from Thing Labs
Seesmic Browser Client
Bantam Live
Camtweet, from Justin.tv
Qik Push API
ECHO, from JK-Kit
12seconds.tv
Mag.ma
You can also watch videos of the entire event on the CrunchUp channel on Ustream.
Additional archives are on the CrunchUp site. We incorporated real-time widgets and services, from CrunchUp sponsors Tinker, cc:Betty and Tokbox. Thanks again to Charles River Ventures and Microsoft BizSpark for helping to underwrite the CrunchUp.
August Capital was unbridled start-up networking and fun. As usual, we are indebted to David Hornik and the partners at August Capital for allowing we hooligans onto their beautiful back deck under the premise of business socializing.
We did manage to get a bit classy this year. Grey Goose Vodka hosted an amazing martini bar for us, complete with ice sculpture. (We were told the last time Grey Goose did an ice-sculpture, it was for Tiger Woods, so we’re super proud of our TechCrunch in ice.) cc:Betty‘s founder Michael Cerda shared his latin jazz band, El Desayuno with us. Between sets, Pandora rocked the house with music. Silver Moon Desserts shared mini, gourmet ice-cream cones. Stormhoek provided wine and Groovy provided the beer and other refreshments. Friendster hosted an amazing caricature mural of attendees with artists who recorded hundreds of attendees. Gaping Void’s Hugh Macleod shared his Dream Big lithographs with attendees (a large-format serigraph a Dream Big was auctioned off during the CrunchUp, and picked up by Bantam Live founder John Rourke in honor of his company’s launch. Benefits to the EFF.) Lots of other start-up demos ran the length of the deck.
Eye.fi took pictures on behalf of Microsoft BizSpark‘s photo wall. Catch them on flickr. Please tag your photos of the conference and social with crunchup (also techcrunch, august capital, 2009.)
Share your photos and posts about your CrunchUp experience, and we’ll add links to them here.
Thanks again for sharing your own ideas and energy at the CrunchUp. Events like this keep our adrenaline up at TechCrunch. We’ll do another one soon.
Lots more photos below.
Thank You To Our CrunchUp Sponsors Who Made It All Possible
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, Groovy and ODesk.
Event Sponsors: Eventbrite for ticketing and MediaTemple for hosting, Topix, Orange, AIM/AOL, ReTargeter, NewTek, Coveroo, Pandora.
More photos:
Michael Arrington sweeps Randi Zuckerberg off her feet:
Michael Arrington (left), Ron Conway, John Borthwick:
Twitter creator Jack Dorsey on stage:
CrunchUp Crowd:
Grey Goose ice sculpture:
No idea, but I love it:
More photos from:
Brian Solis: Great shots from each the Real-Time Stream CrunchUp, http://is.gd/1vZJN, and August Capital Outing, http://is.gd/1vZLM