Techcrunch40: Entertainment

Last session of the afternoon is around entertainment at Techcrunch40. Here are my notes:

Flowplay

• It's a virtual avatar that you can then create a social network after you create an avatar
• Kinda like a prettier second life
• PLay a stupid game where you hold the mouse down - you can win tokens - nothing like holding down the space bar for an hour
• don't like the prizes - sell them to your friends
• its like avatar meets dance dance revolution
• another pre-recorded demo!

Metaplace

• it's a virtual world widget
• comparisons to the old aol mid-90s
• you can put an amazon storefront inside your world
• you can use xml, feeds, web services, a layer on top of everything
• the main page for your world gets you all kind of web tools - blogs, wikis, etc.
• virtual worlds have loads of potential they say
• the power of metaplace is that everyone can create their own

Woome

• bridging the offline and online world
• its the first company to develop an online speed dating platform using voice and video
• woo someone or be wooed
• do they do gay and lesbian? yes, they do
• they go thru a demo - basically each one has a minute to woo each other
• $1 to contact the person you woo'ed
• you can create your own sessions around any topic

Zivity

• social network with self-organizing content
• hot photos and interactions with amazing women
• amazon-style recommendations
• vote-based royalties for models and photographers
• they pay out 40%
• what does this product actually do??!?!!
• you can upload files in a zip - woo - 2007 baby!
• a photographer uploads photos - and then the models get some of the money or something - heck if i know

Expert Panel 

Caterina - she likes Woome a lot - she doesn't think its a good standalone app - better as part of another social networking site
Brad - also liked Woome
Sarah - didn't like Woome at all
Loic - I really believe in Woome, he can see a nice virtual world on a site like techcrunch - he twittered it
Brad - I feel like the train left the platform with metaplace - with second life
Hammer - He liked Kaltura and thinks video is on the upspring and video catches on in the near future
Sarah - likes Zivity the best
Zivity - we do photo verification and age verification - but each model takes a picture with a new newspaper

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