Live Coverage: Techcrunch50 – Social Networking

Below is our live coverage of the Wednesday afternoon startup presentations at the Techcrunch50 conference in San Francisco. Keep refreshing this page to view the newest coverage – we will note once the coverage has concluded. And check our main DEMO and TechCrunch50 conference section for our video event coverage as well.

Closet Couture

– women dress for other women and not for other guys
– women take 90 minutes to go out, 26 minutes are used to select the right clothing
– first fashion social network with wardrobe management
– anchored around virtual closets
– ala carte menu – hire a stylist to help and pay for that
– stylists push to affiliates- shouldn’t they first see if you have something that works?
– im not sold that anyone would want to matchup clothing and accessories this way
– offers a packing list to allow you to plan ahead
– there is a forum where the stylists are – so why would i hire a stylist if they will reply for free?
– shop.style.connect

Footnote

– "facebook for the deceased"
– posts publicly available death records
– 80 million profiles
– i wonder if they signon sylvia brown so you can talk to the dead
– this will be tough to get traction on because it requires alive people to do the work
– this is a good seo play to own the serp for the dead people
– facebook-style image viewer and you can annotate on the images which helps with searching

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