6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year's World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup entrepreneurs. We're tracking four of them, plus any others that pop up. This is David Sacks' third WSOP. Sacks, a former PayPal exec and the CEO of Geni/Yammer, walked away with nothing two years ago. Last year he took home $25k in prize money, and twittered every hand. This year he's way up after the first day, with $91k in chips. That likely puts him in the top 10% of players. Full story...
At our Real-Time CrunchUp today in San Francisco, we are hosting a panel titles "Media Streams: Are These The Utlimate Marketing Vehicle?"
Panelists include Sean Rad, CEO of Ad.
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp we saw the launch of VideoLobby, a new service founded by Peter Urban that's looking to make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding.
Rotten Tomatoes is a great site because it takes all the movie reviews from around the web and condenses them into an easy-to-understand aggregate score.
You know the retweet button you see on content spread throughout the web? You can thank TweetMeme for that.
Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca, the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter.
I'm a big fan of keeping things simple, but that doesn't mean things have to be bland. Google search results are pretty bland.
Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph.
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser.
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week.
Everyone loves picture messaging - or at least, they love the idea of it. The iPhone carrying masses clamored for it, then celebrated once they got it by sending everyone pictures of their immediate surroundings and beloved pets before forgetting the feature exists.