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RedBeacon Wins The Top Prize At TechCrunch50 2009
by Erick Schonfeld on September 15, 2009
The 50 startup presentations are over, the judges votes are in, Michael and Jason chewed over the top contenders, and the winner of this year’s TechCrunch50 is RedBeacon. The startup aims to help consumers find local service providers such as plumbers, bakers, and contractors. As we described [...]
TC50: Threadsy, A Communications Stream To Rule Them All
by MG Siegler on September 15, 2009
Email. Twitter. Instant Messaging. Facebook. Those are just four of the most popular ways to communicate online. And actually, the average 23-year-old has 6 different accounts that they check for messages each day. Maintaining and keeping up with that is either basically impossible, or flat-out impossible. That’s [...]
TC50: Lissn Is A Broader Twitter Meets A Simpler Google Wave
by MG Siegler on September 15, 2009
A lot of people use Twitter to have conversations with others, but that’s not really what it was built for. Initially, Twitter was just supposed to be a place to update what you are doing; the @reply only came around because people started using it to direct [...]
TC50: Meet The Whuffie, A New Currency That’s Based On Your Online Reputation
by Jason Kincaid on September 15, 2009
It’s a sad fact of life that many of the most insightful and helpful people on the web (and in real life, for that matter) aren’t financially rewarded for their efforts — they may well be satisfied with the good they’ve done, but that doesn’t help to [...]
TC50: YourVersion Wins Peoples’ Choice Award In The DemoPit
by Jason Kincaid on September 14, 2009
The second company to emerge from the TechCrunch50 DemoPit as a peoples’ choice winner is YourVersion, a discovery engine that looks to help recommend new content based on your past searches and interests. The company was among the top two recipients of TechCrunch50 tokens, which are used [...]
TC50: Mota Motors Takes The Pain Out Of The Used Car Marketplace
by Jason Kincaid on September 14, 2009
It’s not often that you hear about innovation in the used car space, but Mota Motors, a new site that’s launching today at TechCrunch50, has managed to pull it off. Mota’s multi-faceted service effectively holds your hand through the entire used car buying (or selling) process, offering [...]
