New companies seeking riches, or at least a bit of fame, continued to parade across the stage at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco Tuesday, ranging from the creepy scary to the coolly crowd-sourced.Fifty companies were launched Monday and Tuesday in short six-minute demos, with the most popular taking home a $50,000 prize and the others walking away with buzz, new users and potential investors.The morning’s most interesting launch came from facial-expression-identifying company, Affective

The conference is over, the winner has been announced (RedBeacon), and the drinking has begun. Thank you so much to all of the companies (both the finalists and in the Demopit), the sponsors, and the attendees who made this year’s TechCrunch50 possible. We’ve put up more than a hundred posts in the past two days, [...] Related posts: I Like The Way You Move: Animoto’s Custom Movie Montages Can Now Include Video Animoto, the startup that lets you automatically build custom music…

September 22nd, Devils Backbone Brewing will dedicate part of the day to helping the Blue Ridge Medical Center Dental Program here in Nelson County. Click for larger view. Roseland Nelson County, Virginia Next Tuesday an extraordinary event will be taking place here in Nelson County to benefit the Nelson Dental Clinic , a program under the umbrella of Blue Ridge Medial Center, (BRMC) Free Clinic of Central Virginia, and The Thomas Jefferson Health District.

Some people think that Michael Arrington is an arrogant asshole. Not us. We love the guy. Consider this: Michael invited Patrick and me to give a 30 second The Next Web pitch on stage during Techcrunch50. How cool is that? I managed to take a quick photo of the audience and luckily some people took photos of us on stage: More photos here , and here .

We’ve all been there: the classic group photo, with twelve friends side by side doing their best to look as happy as humanly possible. The first shot is easy — but wait, the guy next to you has their own camera, so it’s time for another one. And then another. Soon muscle fatigue kicks in, and those happy smiles fade into grimaces as everyone wonders why isn’t an easier way to share their pics. Cue Clixtr , a new location-based pic sharing platform that’s launching this day at TechCrunch50 .

Here’s the thing I love about Reid Hoffman. There’s no “We-don’t-comment-on-rumors-and-speculation” BS with him. You ask him a question and he gives you an answer. So you don’t need a bunch of words from me, just go to the jump and watch our final backstage interview of the conference where Hoffman talks about whether LinkedIn will [...] Related posts: Reid Hoffman: My Rule of Three for Investing The guest post below was written by Reid Hoffman, CEO…

We’ve all been there: the classic group photo, with twelve friends side by side doing their best to look as happy as humanly possible. The first shot is easy — but wait, the guy next to you has their own camera, so it’s time for another one. And then another. Soon muscle fatigue kicks in, and those happy smiles fade into grimaces as everyone wonders why isn’t an easier way to share their photos. Cue Clixtr , a new location-based photo sharing platform that’s launching today at TechCrunch50 .

During a break at TechCrunch50, Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington drilled new Twitter COO Dick Costolo on his new job, why he took the position and what he’s working on. Costolo, who is an early Twitter investor, said he was thinking of maybe starting his own new company, but decided instead to join Twitter because of its incredible momentum: “My first reaction was, you don’t get a chance to work on potentially one of the pivotal companies.