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Notes from TechCrunch’s “Real-Time CrunchUp”

posted by Michael on November 23, 2009

On Friday I sat in on TechCrunch's "Real-Time CrunchUp” confab in San Francisco. The event was focused on a few different aspects of social media, and it featured panels with industry execs and prominent investors, demos from startups in the space, and Q&As with people like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (whose company had just launched an internal social networking tool for enterprises called Chatter), Threadsy CEO Rob Goldman, and FriendFeed co-founder (and current Facebook exec) Paul Bucheit.

The event sparked some engaging discussion (the "Media Streams: Are These the Ultimate Marketing Vehicles?" panel was particularly lively), as well as a few announcements (including launch of new Android and BlackBerry clients from Seesmic and the launch of real-time video captioning from Ply Media). 

Personally, I really enjoyed the "Filtering the Stream: Getting Rid of the Noise" panel, during which FriendFeed co-founder and current Facebook VP Bret Taylor argued that we should be focusing less on finding ways to consolidate all our data streams in one place and more on finding ways to add more social context to the spots on the web we already visit. I also liked the "Geo Streams: We Know Where You Are, Right Now" panel, which had people like Google’s Steve Lee and Mixer Labs’ Elad Gil discussing building location platforms and services for third-party developers to leverage.

If you were there too, we’d love to hear what you thought. Weigh in below in the comments section.  

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