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  • TechCrunch Disrupt 2011

    TechCrunch Disrupt 2011

    September 14, 2011 After 3 days of hard campaigning, rough interviews, gutsy presentations and the announced loss the beloved TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Disrupt came to the conclusion of who would take home the TechCrunch trophy cup. It wasn’t all that romantic though, we saw battlefield finalist suffering from elimination and even some people finding it impossible to get into the event. What we see is a lot of creative content; from people creating websites and applications to new innovative [...]

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  • Crunchies Winners: Twitter Wins Best Startup

    Crunchies Winners: Twitter Wins Best Startup

    San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts hosted the Crunchies 2010 award ceremony and after party on Friday night. I went with Hermione Way, pictured above, but we didn’t get into the award ceremony even though we had tickets. We both were given VIP tickets, whatever that means, yet we were not admitted because they oversold capacity. There were about 40 of us who waited in the lobby for the awards show to finish and the after party to start. Time [...]

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  • All Drama Aside, It Was Good To See Women Represented At TechCrunch Disrupt 2010

    All Drama Aside, It Was Good To See Women Represented At TechCrunch Disrupt 2010

    *photo credit: TechCrunch I spent part of my lunch break at Disrupt today reading a recent post by Michael Arrington titled Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. This post was written as a response to Rachel Sklar‘s statement about TechCrunch playing a part in perpetrating the under-representation of women in the tech industry: “Part of changing the ratio is just changing awareness, so that the next time TechCrunch is planning a TechCrunch Disrupt, they won’t be able to [...]

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  • YouTube Live and Virgin America Wifi launch

    YouTube Live and Virgin America Wifi launch

    Download: Previously on Pop17, I talked about lifecasting and interviewed Steve Chen about YouTube’s plan to integrate live video on their site. Silicon Alley Insider said that it wouldn’t happen this year, however, it did with YouTube Live. As you can imagine, that was expensive to serve. (See more details at TechCrunch). Part of the event was broadcasted to YouTube from 30,000 feet in the air on board Virgin America for their wifi beta launch. I agree with Cory Williams [...]

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