Real time crunch up is a TechCrunch sponsored Real event that took place in San Francisco in November 2009. The event is about the real time stream of information and sharing that is increasingly becoming a trend in the coming years. The speakers spent a lot of time discussing the social context of information, being able to see what your friends care about as you’re interacting with news, music, or social causes. The following companies made presentations about how they have contributed to the success of real time data streaming on the internet.
Hot Potato connects friends and fans around live events. They are building tools for real-time social collaboration amongst groups who share an interest in any event or experience as it’s happening.
Seesmic is a social software application site offering Seesmic Desktop, an Adobe Air application that integrates multiple Twitter accounts and your Facebook account and Facebook pages. Seesmic also offers a browser based client for Twitter.
StatusNet is an open source micro blogging service that offers users a micro-blogging platform for users to create their own micro blogging sites. You can download Status.net and run your own microblogging service, much like blogging platforms such as WordPress or TypePad.
Angstro delivers critical business news about people and companies across professional networks. It leveraging existing services such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to help users easily discover and share news about colleagues and clients.
Mozzler is a real-time search engine that allows users to build news streams and share them with friends.Search results are split into different types of content; chat, links, images and videos. Users can create their own news streams.
Qwisk connects you to your friends, in real-time, as you browse the web by integrating your social network right into your browser. Qwisk lets you share and communicate with all your friends, as you browse, through it’s unique patent-pending “mini-browser.”
PLYmedia Inc. specializes in the development, design, manufacturing and deployment of an interactive, multi-dimensional web video platform – PLYplatform. PLYmedia delivers a range of applications focused on delivering personalized, enhanced and interactive web video technology by bringing new context and meaning to video.
TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise and find what is most useful.
Rippol is an intelligent discovery engine currently focusing on helping people find video they would personally enjoy. Rippol uses machine learning and real-time ranking in informations display.
Bazaar Labs builds web and mobile applications powered by the real-time social stream, making it fun and easy for anyone to participate in conversations about their favorite topics.
Videolobby make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding. The service is an extension of Urban’s “sales software for real people” service Smibs.the site helps you build your own custom video portal, and then allows you to include streams from services like Qik , Ustream and Justin.tv.
Startup description courtesy crunchbase.