Tech Crunch 50 Companies Map 1 #EditableMarkerStyle0 Blah Girls.com <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_44_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.blahgirls.com/" TARGET="_blank">Katalyst Media</A> was started by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg. “Blah Blah Blah” is a new original content Web property that delivers a unique perspective on popular culture from the vantage point of the Blah Girls.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -118.32968725,34.09782320,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle1 TweeGee <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_45_mini.png"> Tweegee.com is a pioneering destination site that empowers Tweens to express themselves creatively and safely in an innovative and customized online environment. Tweegee integrates social networking, digital content, and interactive tools to offer a complete online platform for Tweens.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -74.00639249,40.74462879,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle2 Shryk LLC <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_46_mini.png"> </TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> Shryk provides the iThryv next generation online banking platform to financial services organizations, and the integrated WeProsper.org community to promote financial literacy.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -97.47809540,35.65283230,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle3 Hangout Industries <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_47_mini.png"> Hangout enables 16-24 year olds to bring off-line, social hangout activities on-line by combining the casual Web with immersive 3D.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -71.05977320,42.35843080,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle4 DotSpots <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_48_mini.png"> <a href ="http://www.dotspots.com">DotSpots</a> brings the power of Wikipedia - the wisdom of crowds - to every meme (block of text) on the web, and leverages automatic semantic matching to distribute each contribution to every instance of that meme across the web.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -118.34062880,33.83584920,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle5 Ångströ <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://www.angstro.com" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_49_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://www.angstro.com" TARGET="_blank">Angstro</A> delivers critical business news about people and companies across professional networks. By leveraging existing services such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, Angstro helps users to easily discover and share news about colleagues and clients.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.16314680,37.44440480,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle6 LIVEHIT <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_50_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.livehit.com" TARGET="_blank">LiveHit</A> is a revolutionary new Social Discovery Service showcasing who and what’s hot in the moment across the social web – it’s Your Live Personalized Social Navigation Engine - Your Custom GPS System to discover contextually relevant rich media content and people.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.16013736,37.44510754,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle7 Quant the News LLC <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_51_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.stockmood.com" TARGET="_blank">Quant the News LLC</A>, (QTN) was formed to develop and deploy advanced textual sentiment analysis applications that leverage its unique, AI-based natural language processing and data mining technology.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -118.23938614,34.05406515,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle8 Adgregate Markets <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://www.adgregate.com/" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_58_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://www.adgregate.com/" TARGET="_blank"> </A><A HREF="http://www.adgregate.com/" TARGET="_blank">Adgregate Markets</A> transforms online display ads into e-commerce markets. Adgregate Markets is changing the dynamic of traditional banner advertising by aggregating micro-markets through fully transactional banner widgets.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.39724972,37.78786934,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle9 AdRocket <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://www.adrocket.com/" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_59_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://www.adrocket.com/" TARGET="_blank"> </A><A HREF="http://www.adrocket.com/" TARGET="_blank">AdRocket</A> is the ad targeting network for email. AdRocket’s network increases publisher eCPMs through intelligent ad selection and optimization.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.41907218,37.77509911,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle10 Akoha <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_83_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://akoha.org/" TARGET="_blank">Akoha</A> is a Montreal based developer of a new type of online / offline social multiplayer game.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -73.57844427,45.51660632,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle11 Alfabetic <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://www.alfabetic.com/" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_74_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://www.alfabetic.com/" TARGET="_blank">Alfabetic</A> is positioned to be the world’s first Cross-Lingual Ad Network, allowing publishers to monetize their content across the language barrier. Alfabetic offers web content publishers a turnkey solution to translate, localize, distribute and monetize globally.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 34.98251534,31.75162799,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle12 Atmosphir <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://minorstudios.com/" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_84_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://minorstudios.com/" TARGET="_blank"> </A><A HREF="http://minorstudios.com/" TARGET="_blank">Minor Studios</A> is an interactive storytelling company located in San Francisco, California. It is part of the Minor Ventures family, and currently developing a video game called Atmosphir.Atmosphir is a free platformer game / design tool hybrid for Mac or PC. Designers can create huge 3D interactive adventures, and then share them with an online community.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.39513614,37.78920050,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle13 BirdPost <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_85_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.birdpost.com/" TARGET="_blank">Birdpost</A> is poised to lead a burgeoning “citizen science” movement as a usable, innovative, and potent framework aimed at connecting nature and people in ways never before possible. Birdpost combines satellite mapping technology with the popular sport of birdwatching, dramatically modernizing, improving, and altering the hobby by solving birders’ most vexing problem: where to find new bird species.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.18293812,37.45343562,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle14 Bojam <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_81_mini.png"><A HREF="http://www.bojam.com/" TARGET="_blank">Bojam</A> is an online music collaboration service connecting musicians by giving them a platform to mix, record, and collaborate to produce original or popular music.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.15843684,37.44879149,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle15 By Burt <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://www.byburt.com/" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_57_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://www.byburt.com/" TARGET="_blank"> </A><A HREF="http://www.byburt.com/" TARGET="_blank">Burt</A> builds technology that inspires people to have better and more creative ideas, initially focusing on enabling ad agencies to create more intelligent and entertaining digital campaigns.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 18.06263924,59.32946814,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle16 CLOSET COUTURE <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_87_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.closetcouture.com/" TARGET="_blank">Closet Couture</A> is an online fashion community, anchored around virtual closets, connecting members, retailers and stylists</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -118.54808652,34.07814794,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle17 Emerginvest <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://www.emerginvest.com/" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_66_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://www.emerginvest.com/" TARGET="_blank">Emerginvest </A>is a website which helps investors research international stock markets, and then shows them how they can invest there.</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">Emerginvest (a free service) is connecting investors to hundreds of thousands of undiscovered, international companies by providing data, research, and tools on 150+ world stock exchanges. </TEXTFORMAT> 1 -71.10747472,42.37386055,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle18 Fair Software <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_52_mini.png"> FairSoftware is the place to start and grow a virtual online business. It only takes a few clicks for software developers and website publishers to incorporate, hire and share revenue with other project members.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.07509637,37.38646089,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle19 Footnote <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_88_mini.png">Footnote is a subscription website featuring tens of millions of original source documents from the world’s finest archives available on the Internet for the first time, including military records, naturalization papers, and historical newspapers. Footnote also allows free viewing and uploading of user-contributed content including old photos, letters, and documents. Users can annotate, spotlight, and connect records.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -111.72758434,40.33116585,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle20 Fotonauts <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_80_mini.png"> Fotonauts mission is to enable the creation of the definitive pool of images for everyone to contribute to, discover and use, covering all areas of human interest. fotonauts will deliver the world’s best tools to discover, organize, share and collaborate with images, wherever they are stored.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.15964920,37.44346780,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle21 Gazopa <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_79_mini.png">GazoPa is an image search engine by Hitachi that uses features from an image to search for and identify similar images. There are abundant quantities of images on the web, however many of these simply cannot be described by keywords, keywords are not sufficient as conditions for image searches.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 138.00000000,36.00000000,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle22 GoodGuide <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_94_mini.png"> GoodGuide.com provides free and easy access to the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental and social impacts of products and companies.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.39955642,37.79208320,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle23 Goodrec <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_90_mini.png"> Goodrec is a mobile and online recommendation service that provides brief, to-the-point recommendations from friends and trusted sources. The service makes it easy to make, find and remember actionable recommendations from anywhere: online, via its iPhone application or from any mobile browser.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.41931894,37.77509063,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle24 GoPlanit <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_91_mini.png">GoPlanit is the one-click travel planner that’s useful on the go.</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">Travel planning can be very frustrating and time-consuming. One can spend weeks or even months researching details, organizing travel plans, and communicating with friends, family, and other travelers. GoPlanit helps simplify the above process- saving you time, money, and aggravation when you’re planning your trips.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.39948937,37.79146216,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle25 Grockit <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_82_mini.png"> Grockit is a learning Web 2.0 service, as they like to call it. The two products they offer include an online GMAT preparation package and a learning game for massively multiplayer online games (currently in private invite mode). Grockit believes that people learn better through peer-to-peer situations instead of teacher-to-student, and they are building their companies’ products around this idea.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.41921165,37.77527719,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle26 iCharts <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_69_mini.png">Charts makes interactive charting simple.</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">www.icharts.net is the portal where everyone can search and share charts. Integrated into the portal is iCharts Studio which allows anyone to create high quality, interactive charts (iCharts) within minutes for private use or for publishing. </TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.01205415,37.38453035,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle27 M:Metrics <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_68_mini.png">M:Metrics is a leader in mobile media measurement. They can track mobile visitors, pageviews, ads clicked and more.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.33207080,47.60620950,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle28 MixTT <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_62_mini.png">MIXTT is a fresh spin on social networking that enables groups of friends to meet other groups in their city. Users create group profiles for their various “cliques” or “crews”, post and share social plans, then connect with other groups based on common interests or activities. </TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.41941550,37.77492950,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle29 Mobclix <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_72_mini.png">Mobclix provides:</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> 1. Application Management</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> 2. Real-Time Advanced Application Analytics</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> 3. Monetization Strategies that make ‘sense’</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> 4. Application Sentiment and Trends</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> 5. Robust and rich ad platform</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">We want to empower iPhone developers with a rich and robust platform to create actionable-insights which will help make iPhone Applications better.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.14318043,37.44202395,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle30 Mytopia <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://www.mytopia.com/" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_70_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://www.mytopia.com/" TARGET="_blank">Mytopia</A> is the world’s first online social gaming community where people can play casual, timeless games together in real time, from every corner of the web. Users on social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut and Hi5 can play seamlessly with users in widget communities like Apple, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 34.88850927,32.08902170,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle31 OtherInbox <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_60_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.otherinbox.com/" TARGET="_blank">OtherInbox </A>helps consumers to deal with email overload.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -97.74037859,30.26919157,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle32 Personalria <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_65_mini.png"><A HREF="http://www.personalria.com/" TARGET="_blank">PERSONALRIA</A> (PR) is an innovative platform that replaces mutual funds as the primary investment vehicle available to retail investors. There are two key participants in the platform: REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISORS (RIAs), and retail investors (investors with an average, or below average, amount of investible assets). RIAs are investment professionals that usually cater to the high-net-worth market segment.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.14314288,37.44221562,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle33 PlaYce <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><A HREF="http://www.playce.com/" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_92_mini.png"> </A><A HREF="http://www.playce.com/" TARGET="_blank">plaYce</A> is “Making the World a Playground” by providing a 3D virtual world for games and social interaction, based on the real world.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.43809977,37.80217599,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle34 Popego <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_64_mini.png"><A HREF="http://www.popego.com/" TARGET="_blank">Popego</A> is an Internet company building AI technology and innovative interfaces to create a more personal web based on the concept of user-controlled interest profiles.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.42136278,37.77869043,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle35 PostBox <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_75_mini.png">A new kind of messaging application, the<A HREF="http://www.postbox-inc.com/" TARGET="_blank"> Postbox™</A> email client helps users spend less time managing email and more time using email to get things done. By cataloging content, Postbox lets users quickly find text, images, URLs, addresses and more hidden deep within their mail store. Found data is displayed in context (text in multi-sentence abstracts, messages in threads, images and URLs with message header data) and can be easily repurposed in new messages or web searches, or even shared online—all from within Postbox.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.38802829,37.75929438,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle36 Rinen <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_56_mini.png"><A HREF="http://opentrace.org/" TARGET="_blank">OpenTrace</A> is a brand new environmental infrastructure that aggregates product materials' information from bottom up and dynamically calculates the environmental load to indicate them. Existing indicators are well-authenticated, but are complex and static when calculating the environmental load, so it costs us much money and time.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 139.75138890,35.68500000,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle37 Shattered Reality Interactive <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_93_mini.png"><A HREF="http://www.srinteractive.com/" TARGET="_blank">Shattered Reality Interactive (“SRI”)</A> is a video game development company located in San Francisco, California, that creates next generation Massively Multiplayer Online (“MMO”) games.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.39063003,37.78024647,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle38 Swype <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_76_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.swypeinc.com/" TARGET="_blank">Swype</A> creates text input technology for screens.</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">The patented interface enables users to create words with one continuous finger motion across an on-screen keyboard. This approach provides a faster and easier way to write. Swype delivers single-tap, multi-tap, predictive and “swype” motions for both stylus and finger based input. In addition, the application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.32917401,47.60741027,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle39 Tingz <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_61_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://tingz.net/" TARGET="_blank">Tingz</A> is changing the way people experience the Internet by giving them tools and services to gather content from across the web and distribute it directly to their digital devices and social networks. Tingz offers a surprisingly consistent and easy experience across a wide variety of devices, operating systems and platforms. We think of Tingz as the Invisible Internet, surfacing content in a way that allows people to seamlessly integrate the Internet into their daily lives.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -83.91827157,35.96300045,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle40 Tonchidot <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_71_mini.png">TonchiDot provides iPhone applications and services.</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">Tonchidot, based in Tokyo, believes in using ideas in clever, amusing and imaginative ways. Our mission is to create a world of wit, parallel to our real world, where witty technology and sensibility are used to find witty solutions. Our Sekai Camera (“World Camera” in Japanese) is a real-world interface for the iPhone that connects real and virtual worlds, allowing anybody to create, experience and participate in both. </TEXTFORMAT> 1 139.75158202,35.68597600,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle41 TrueCar <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_95_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.truecar.com/" TARGET="_blank">TrueCar</A> was created by automotive and technology pioneers to show consumers how much people actually paid for a particular new car in their geographic area. More importantly, TrueCar will give real guidance on what a consumer should consider a good price, a great price or over-priced. It’s a free online tool – empowering consumers with the only true, unbiased and relevant new car pricing information available. </TEXTFORMAT> 1 -118.49213534,34.01666199,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle42 VideoSurf <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_78_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.videosurf.com/" TARGET="_blank">VideoSurf </A>is a computer vision search engine that has created a new way for users to easily find, discover and watch the videos from across the Web.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.32520353,37.56193713,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle43 Yammer <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><IMG SRC="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_53_mini.png"> <A HREF="http://www.yammer.com/" TARGET="_blank">Yammer</A> is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: "What are you working on?" As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced. Anyone in a company can start their Yammer network and begin inviting colleagues.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -118.37638572,34.09440666,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle44 Connective Logic <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_54_mini.png">Connective Logic has created the Blueprint software development platform which, along with our real-time middleware, enables software developers to design, code generate and deploy very complex multi-core software applications without requiring expertise in the field of ‘multi-threaded’ software.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -0.04790441,51.49429125,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle45 FitBit <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_73_mini.png">Fitbit inspires people to exercise more, eat better and live a healthier lifestyle.</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">The company is developing a ultra-compact wireless wearable sensor, called the Fitbit Tracker, that automatically tracks data about a person’s activities, such as calories burned, sleep quality, steps and distance.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -122.39997150,37.68076610,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle46 CauseCast LLC <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_86_mini.png">Causecast is an interactive community that connects individuals, leaders, celebrities, and brands to make a positive impact in the world. We educate, entertain, and empower people to get involved with the causes they want to support, in the ways they want to support them, by utilizing innovative technology, mass media, and entertainment.</TEXTFORMAT> 1 -118.48748149,34.01769850,0.00000000 #EditableMarkerStyle47 IAmNews <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><img src="http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/images/logos/presenter_96.png">iamnews is a global open newsroom powered by you. With iamnews anyone can assign news tasks. Everyone can participate.</TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2">It is for independent reporters, photographers, media moguls and anyone who wants to connect with reporters from the world and collaborate in the creation of news. </TEXTFORMAT> 1 34.75000000,31.50000000,0.00000000 0.00000000,37.16031655,0.00000000 1 88.89196843455036 -85.51339830988746 430.6640625 -430.6640625 mapnik com.afcomponents.umap.providers.microsoft::MicrosoftProvider Location of 52 startups presented at the 2008 Tech Crunch 50 Conference.