MC Hammer was at TechCrunch40 today, to announce his new company, DanceJam.  Don Dodge broke the DanceJam story on his blog today, after TechCrunch40 closed.  I managed to get a pic of yours truly & MC Hammer today!  In other news, there is a great Korean startup called MusicShake that have a fantastic product worth [...]

I’m sitting at TechCrunch40 and Mark Zuckerberg just announced the FaceBook $10m Apps fund to assist developers in building Facebook apps.  There will be no equity taken, and this is basically a grant.   The Web 2.0 market is going crazy… it’s certainly boom time! Free money…what next?

TechCrunch is doing such a good job of coverage, I’m going to stop covering the event sessions   (yes it’s a cop out, as my head is throbbing!).  I’ll be in the Demo Pit tomorrow with Synthasite, so I won’t have much time to do any blogging – so might as well quit while I’m [...]

The inaugural TechCrunch40 Keynote panel gets underway with a great panel of industry veterans: Michael Moritz interviews Marc Andreesen (founder of Netscape & Opsware, co-founder of Ning), David Filo (co-founder Yahoo) and Chad Hurley (co-founder YouTube). Michael asks Chad to give some background on his first business – which was a flywood poster business! David [...]

Cubic Telecom The guys take to the stage, with a couple of good jobs. They are announcing the launch of their product today, called MaxRoam. It’s basically a sim card that allows you to pay local call charges, no matter where in the world you are, by having multiple numbers on your sim card. The [...]