Techcrunch40: Session 3 – Community and Collaboration

This is session #3 – Community and Collaboration. Please consider this file live and refresh for the latest until you see the final note.

StoryBlender

• its a video wiki
• i feel like i have seen this already but cant remember the name
• based in korea- i assume south
• has a social networking – friends component
• it looks pretty slick
• you create "blends"
• storyblender.com

TripIt

• organizes your bookings
• it’s not for booking, just for organization
• you email your email confirmations to tripit and then it creates a nice page of all of the trip
• sends it to gmail, google calendar, etc
• does it do microformats?
• it seems "smart"
• friends can see your trips
• they believe a trip planner can be a big benefit
• as they add more features and functionality and it will become smarter and smarter

Flock

• shows off the 1.0 web browser – is this how they got in?
• you can pull in some info into a panel – while this works with 10 friends like he is showing – how would it work for scoble?
• shows his favorite services: youtube, flickr and facebook
• kinda looks like the other flock browser we reviewed last month

MusicShake

• This is the No Brainer Musician Project
• 9 yr old kid made the song in 5 minutes
• they believe the next trend is user generated music
• these guys have a super small sweet looking laptop
• VERY COOL product
• this is my favorite so far

8020 publishing

• they make jpg magazines
• they believe the web can make magazines better
• they are launching everywhere magazine – travel is all around you
• they curate the best of the community
• http://techcrunch.everywheremag.com
• the magazine has themes that you can sponsor
• i honestly have no idea what this is – sorry!

Expert Panel

Yossi – likes Flock and Music Shake – thinks Music Shake will be a big hit with the young kids

Don – likes music shake and story blender – reminds him of his days in napster

Rajeev – likes music shake cuz its fun – and tripit for the functionality

Ron Conway – likes tripit and storyblender – tripit is nice easy idea that a lot of people have

Mike Arrington – i like 8020 publishing as people would like to put this on the coffee table