A taste of TechCrunch50 from JD Lasica on Vimeo.
One of the coolest folks I met on Day 2 of the TechCrunch50 conference was Meghan Asha, founder of NonSociety and a self-described "geekette." Check out the personality-driven tech-glam recommendation site NonSociety.com and her lifecast there.
Meghan gives a nice 4-minute summary of highlights at TechCrunch50, the second annual technology conference put on by Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis, and cites the favorite tech startups she’s seen so far.
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A few other notes from Day 2:
• Best moment of the conference so far: when Takahito Iguchi, the Japanese-speaking CEO of Sekai Camera, answered three questions about the camera’s social tagging capabilities (open or closed? how to update the data when the physical world changes?) with the response, "Join us!" That became the mantra of the afternoon, and perhaps of the conference. Fitting, too, with Tim O’Reilly on stage as one of the judges.
Iguchi’s second mantra: Sekai’s cameras would change the way we interact with our handheld devices, when we point the gadget at buildings, walls, billboards and so on to capture and tag items in our environment. "Don’t look down. Look up!!"
TechCrunch has more on the presentation here.
• Fitbit won praise from all four judges for an upcoming device that lets you track your health and weight. PC Magazine has the summary here (FitBit Trainer Tracks Your Health, Even Sleep). The consumer device, priced at $99, is due out in late December or early January. Said judge Josh Koppelman: "Purchasing it isn’t a decision, it’s an IQ test for most people." In other words, a no-brainer.
• Enjoyed meeting Nir Ofir, founder of iamnews, "a global newsroom powered by you." I’ll be looking into this citizen journalism platform in the coming weeks.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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