Scripting News: TechCrunch 40, day 2

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TechCrunch 40, day 2

Following up on yesterday's piece about Demo-like conferences.

Eric Norlin proposes that the economics are still out of whack. The people providing the value, the people attending the show, should get in for free. The demoers should pay. He has a point. In my HyperCamp proposal, that is how it works. The premise is that in 2007 everyone who attends is as much press as anyone else (everyone's a blogger) so what's the justification for some people getting in as press (i.e. free of charge) and others paying $2500.

Richard Wolpert: Crunch Crunch.

Valleywag says JC is really Willy Wonka. ";->"

Paul Boutin has a list of the companies demoing at TC40.

The unofficial back-channel for the TC40 conference.

JS Pepper's photos from TechCrunch 40.

Frank Gruber's photos from TC40.

Too bad they don't have a live video stream from the conf.

Wait a minute -- justin.tv has a stream:

Watch techtalk live video and chat on Justin.tv

Bad news, they turned off the video and audio in the afternoon, so we can't catch the demos from remote. We had an interesting discussion going on the IRC about the stuff going on in the morning, but it's not happening in the afternoon. Sorry, we did the best we could.

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:01:35 PM

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