The latest Disrupt has wrapped, but given the volume of news it created and the rate at which posts were pushing each other off the front page, you could be forgiven for missing a few items or videos here and there. Don’t worry, though: we’ve got the highlights of the show collected right here.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. We still have a ton of backstage talks and other footage we’re editing and processing, so expect more Disrupt content over the next week as we post these candid interviews with CEOs and Battlefield competitors. In the meantime, enjoy this central repository of all things Disrupt NYC 2011.
- Photos of the hackers working diligently
- …and continuing to work diligently deep into the night
- Video: Lora meets with some of the hackers and collects advice on how to maximize Hackathon time
- Video: Meet a 14-year-old self-taught hacker and his hack, BuyBy
- Video: the winning Hackathon demos and interviews with their creators
Hacks:
- NerdNearby: finds tweeters and people checking in near you
- Gilt-ii: a second layer for shopping site Gilt that lets you auction off your reserved items
- Joinable: a cloud-based tool for providing email and voice mail to the homeless
- JoystiCC: lets you control other human beings like chess pieces?
- Dispatch.io: for easily sharing local documents to cloud services like Google Apps
- Docracy: allows for collaboration and version tracking on legal documents
Interviews, panels, and Fireside Chats (with video and transcript):
- Fred Wilson: “Be your own bitch”
- Dennis Crowley talks about worldwide Foursquare adoption and his Gap sweater
- Arianna Huffington and Michael Arrington discuss the AOL acquisition, Mapquest, and orzo
- Ron Conway and David Lee on their new fund and myths of entrepreneurship
- Nora Ephron, Jay Rosen, and Arianna Huffington discuss new media
- Dave Morin shows off Stacks and explains why they declined to be acquired
- Charlie Cheever discusses Quora’s growth and why they don’t intend to sell
- Jeff Jarvis urges transparency in new media journalism and calls Bill Keller “obnoxious”
- Tim Armstrong explains how paid content can work
- Disrupting music with social
- Disrupting social commerce
Battlefield session one: disrupting search and discovery:
Do@: a slick search engine that searches using apps instead of the web
Rexly: a media recommendation engine based on trusted social graph connections
Weotta: plans an outing for you based on mood and intention
Skylines: a personalized photo stream based on topics and keywords, instead of people
Deja: a flashy interface for video discovery and consumption
Battlefield session two: disrupting location, location, location
SpotOn: recommends places to go nearby, based on your own social network information
Karizma: a video chatting app that connects you with people nearby
Sonar: find people by you who you don’t know but should know, based on mutual connections
Arrived: a location-aware social planning app that tells you what to do now that you’ve arrived
Gnonstop Gnome: an experimental gnome-sharing application with a clever transfer method
Battlefield session three: disrupting commerce
SneakPeeq: a social shopping site that counts down prices until someone buys an item
StyleSeat: a powerful job management system for stylists and other independent operators
Spenz: deep spending tracking app with a reward system for usage
BillGuard: “Antivirus for bills” that identifies fraudulent charges on your bank account
Happy Toy Machine: a plush toy customization engine, “Build-a-Bear on steroids”
Bonus link:
The TechCrunch Disrupt Official Drinking Game
Interviews, panels, and fireside chats:
- Paul Graham on the Y Combinator process
- Ashton Kutcher lays out his investment strategies
- Bing Gordon weighs in on Facebook and Zynga (and drops some rhyme science)
- David Karp and Kevin Systrom on managing hockey-stick growth
- Roelof Botha: RIP Good Times was no mistake
- Disrupting display advertising
- Disrupting publishing, from links to tablets
- Chris Dixon, Ron Conway, and Eric Hippeau discuss the New York startup scene
Battlefield session four: disrupting the real world
Desmos: a platform for rich educational content
Smartheart: world’s smallest hospital-grade ECG and an iPhone app to go along with it
Avado: a tracking and communication platform for doctors and patients
MotherKnows: an app for keeping track of all your kids’ important medical data from shots to height
Battlefield session five, disrupting enterprise
Getaround: rent nearby cars or put yours up for rent, with a special keyfob and app
Thinkfuse: richer, shareable status reports for your business
ccLoop: collects emails into subscribable “loops,” reducing email clutter
ThriftDB: a powerful database tool that’s difficult to describe but very impressive to watch
Foretuit: a platform for collaborating on and tracking projects and sales
InvoiceASAP: a mobile invoicing app with cloud backup and media integration
Battlefield session six, disrupting something else
Lumier: no one is quite sure what Lumier is – possibly a skin for Windows
Meporter: a citizen journalism platform aimed at hyper-local news
Everything Butt Art: an iPad app for teaching kids to draw, relying on butt-based drawings (yes, really)
CatchFree: a platform for finding, rating, and recommending free services
Kohort: a unified service for managing groups and events
Tracks: “Color for normal people,” creates collaborative picture timelines for events
Codeguard: an enterprise-level website backup system for consumers
Bonus link:
Lark launches in Apple stores (plus an onstage proposal)
Interviews, panels, and fireside chats:
- Google bets on NFC
- Chris Farmer, a partner at General Catalyst, reveals the top 10 venture capital firms
- John Biggs talks with Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter as well as a few of Kickstarter’s more successful projects
- Security and performance booster CloudFlare reveals some impressive stats
- Electric vs efficiency with Brammo CEO Craig Bramscher and EcoMotors CEO Don Runkle
- Office hours with Paul Graham: The investor brings entrepreneurs from the audience onstage to hash out their ideas
- The first Disrupt NYC winner Soluto offers some cool new features
- Qwiki lets you Qwiki yourself
- Fireside chat with Christopher Poole of Canvas Networks and 4chan
- Mike Arrington interviews Marissa Mayer
The final Battlefield session
The ultimate liveblog of the final battlefield session
And the winner is … Getaround!
From 30 awesome demos came six extra-awesome finalists. We were impressed by every startup that made the stage, but those final six really blew our socks off. Congratulations to all the companies, with special mention to Billguard, ccLoop, Do@, InvoiceASAP, and Sonar — and, of course, the Disrupt NYC 2011 Winner (and Audience Choice Winner), Getaround, which captured the Disrupt Cup with its killer car rental marketplace. Not to mention that they brought a Tesla, which always helps.
And of course, thanks to all our attendees, sponsors, and team members, who all help make Disrupt possible. This was the biggest yet, and we think it was also the best. See you next time.