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Okay, we’re back. It’s weird that TechCrunch isn’t announcing the presenters until AFTER the presentation. When I look at the page for the second session, I just see:

Profiles of the presenting companies will be published here after the session.

Why not list them?

iTwin is up now. They’re a company from Singapore that allows plug and play remote file access. It’s a piece of hardware that splits in half and allows two computers to share the same folders. I guess this would be cool if you had insanely sensitive information that needs to be shared. Aside from CIA-grade security I don’t know why you’d need this. It’s going to cost $100.

I agree with their idea that the future is in remote access rather than in portable storage, but actually having  a physical pair doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

imo turns the iPhone into a video game controller. Their presentation started with Eye of the Tiger blaring, while a man in a racecar driver costume is on stage fumbling with his phone. Very uncomfortable to watch, as the app just isn’t working at all. Fail.

A minute in and not a word spoken. This is hard to watch. I feel bad for the guy. He’s just got to bag the demo and start talking, but he’s still trying to get it to work.

I love it. Calacanis just said “we’re going to let him try again unlike some other conferences that laugh at them.” They’re going to restart. I think there were network problems rather than product problems, so you can’t blame the presenter.

fluidhtml is a markup language that generates flash. This one is really interesting to me as 1) I hate flash but want to be able to do the things flash does without learning a new language 2) this company is also in Waltham, MA. Hey there, neighbor.

Man I want this to work as advertised. It’s a markup language for flash. It looks just like html but generates flash dynamically.

Looks like the network is down.

And back up……

Problem: Flash and SEO don’t get along.
Solution: fluidhtml can be crawled with no problem whatsoever with fhtml.

Problem: No deep linking with flash
Solution: Each element has a URL, so the back button works. I like that a LOT. HUGE.

Problem: It doesn’t work the way the rest of the internet works. Flash isn’t dynamically rendered.
Solution: This lets you use html and add flash content ontop.

I can’t wait to check this out, but I’m not sure I understand how it can make money. It’s a language, so how do you profit from that?

Ahhh….they charge a fee to publishers. I’ll have to really check this one out. If you guys from fluidhtml are around in Waltham, hit me up.

Toybots Woozees-Gaming platform called Toybots. You have a physical toy that “interacts” with a virtual world. What?

Wow dude, that’s creepy.

But still kind of cool. The platform can send content to the toy, and the toy can tell stories, play games, etc. I’m surprised that there isn’t already something like this.

This is going to be pretty big.

SpawnLabs- Play console games from any network connected computer. It’s an appliance that has to be put on a network and connected to the console. Then you download software to your laptop and you can access the console. Hmm. $200 and it is the size of a set-top box.

Interesting for hardcore gamers, but not to me. I just don’t really play games much.

Clicker-Their tag is “What’s On Online”, and they’re TV guide for the web. They’re right in that there’s no good guide to help you find internet video (especially when it comes to TV shows). It’s hard to find stuff. It’s a structured guide for internet TV.

Cool.

All right, that’s it for this session. For me, the winner here is fluidhtml.

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