Techcrunch40: Rich Media and Mash Ups

These demos are the Rich Media and Mashups selected for TechCrunch40.  These notes are live.

xtr3D

• real-time software that analyzes 3d motions of a tracker-less person using a simple web cam
• pretty sweet app
• shows it using google earth and using hand and body movements, the world map moves
• hard to describe but it could be powerful

BroadClip - Bringing MediaCatcher for Facebook

• talks about music 2.0 - itunes, limewire, internet radio, pandora, etc.
• broadclip is music 3.0 - social musical interation, free and legal, searchable and portable
  and a business model is sure to love
• its a cool and interesting way to record music from internet webcasts
• there was no one presenting - just a recorded demo - wtf
• jason cut them off - thank you

mego

• can't spell - "challanges" on one of the slides
• From Tantek - mEgos are personal, portable profiles.  An avatar that takes and organizes all your personal feeds and information.  An avatar with utility.
• They have a twitter feed from your mego
• I guess you make a mego and then you can put that anywhere
• People roll over your body and see things you want (lOl)

wixi

• he fell in love with an argentinian girl - and he was far away - so he couldnt send her large files - specifically french songs
• it's a virtual desktop - looks very nice
• ny-based
• has a full screen view
• when you watch a video - you can see other related videos and pics
• use code tc40access to get in

I am sorry but the computer died and I lost the last bit of notes and expert panel notes. I am trying to get them from tantek and will post shortly. Please remain with this post :)