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Well, I had a choice to make. Either watch DEMOfall 2008 or TechCrunch50. DEMO 2008 did such a great job of streaming, but it looks like they’ll just be posting video of presentations within 24 hours rather than streaming. TechCrunch50, on the other hand, will be streaming live. Makes it a pretty easy choice.

So, with that said, here are the presenters for today at TechCrunch50. I’ll also be covering the sessions live.All quotes are from TechCrunch.

Session 1: Youth and Culture- 9-10:15 AM

BlahGirls -

Backed by Ashton Kutcher, Blah Girls is a gossip site that features a group of animated teenage girls who provide opinions on what’s going on in the world of entertainment.

Tweegee

A hub for tweens, Tweegee offers the youth market a suite of online tools for social interaction and organization.

Shryk

Web-based financial software for children aimed at promoting financial literacy and good saving habits.

Hangout Industries

Blends social networking with virtual worlds by creating a 3D, online environment where 16-24 year olds can chat and share media

Session 2: Memes & News- 10:30 - 11:45am

DotSpots

Tracks the memes spreading across the web, aggregates the content associated with them, and gives everyone Wikipedia-like control over that content.

Angstro

Lets you set up a feed of news about your friends, instead of news by your friends.

LiveHit

Tracks the music, videos, and entertainment sites people are clicking on right now.

Quant the News

Creator of StockMood.com, a service that tracks the sentiments of online news stories about stocks and then measures their potential impact on the direction of those stocks’ prices

Session 3: Enterprise- 2:30 - 3:45pm

FairSoftware

Creates virtual shares around software projects that gives each contributor a portion of any resulting revenues.

Yammer

A web application designed for businesses and organizations that asks its users to answer the question, “What are you working on?”

Connective Logic

Along with the company’s real-time middleware, Blueprint will make it easier for developers to design, generate code, and deploy complex multi-core software applications without requiring expertise in multi-threaded software development

Devunity

A platform for writing code in a browser-based editor that doesn’t force developers to use a proprietary layer

OpenTrace

Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment

Session 4: Advertising & Commerce Monetization- 3:45 - 5:00pm

Burt

Collects user data to tailor individual advertising campaigns and target users more effectively.

Adgregate Markets

Brings the store to consumers through a fully transactional widget.

Adrocket

Contextual text-based advertising for email; assigns keywords to each address depending on known data

OtherInBox

Provides an easy way to contain spam and the messages you receive from online services

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