#Crunchup Photos

I’m just back from a quick trip north to attend the TechCrunch RealTime Crunchup (say that 5 times fast). Like most TechCrunch shindigs it was a pretty solid event. A healthy crowd eager to “tap” the real time web. I joked with former LA resident and now SFWeekly editor Alexia Tsotsis, “What the hell would we be doing now if we didn’t have Twitter?”. Yes it almost seems like that little birdie managed to save our entire space from another crash.

Instead of bombing we’re bursting with sentiment based aggregating geo-targeted real-time delights. Of course those concepts are way too much for a normal web user, just right for us geeks though. So while I didn’t leave seeing any huge breakaway ideas or products, I continue to see some great innovations around the real time web. Perhaps one day this spaghetti like mess of data can be distilled into something amazing. Or at the very least, give us more ways to broadcast to our friends exactly what we had for lunch.

Here are some photos of the event from Kenneth Yeung at thelettertwo.com.
You can see all of Ken’s photos here.

@marlooz behind the lens.

Team TechCrunch preps for a marathon blogging session.

Twitter COO Dick Costolo assures us Twitter to have ads, and those ads will be “fascinating”.

While everyone fights over data, Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur starts to own the access to it.

Tweetmeme CEO Nick Halstead takes a break from fighting off acquisitions to talk retweeting advertisements.

Writer Paul Carr says silly things, wears silly hats.

This is how happy you look after Facebook acquires you.

Robert Scoble explains the super tweet.

Synaptic Web Sandwich.

Techmeme founder Gabe Riviera meets newest member of the TechCrunch staff, buddy the dog. Watch him try to sniff out Gabe’s algorithm about 10 seconds in.