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A few notes from someone who watched this streaming live: * The headline is wrong (according to my memory, haven't been able to confirm yet); this was roughly

A few notes from someone who watched this streaming live: * The headline is wrong (according to my memory, haven't been able to confirm yet); this was roughly the 68th hack (minus no-shows) since they made a joke saying that the next act was #69. The headline text has been tweeted a bunch (and reported by Valleywag :)), though, and probably came from there. * There was laughter during the presentation and applause afterward. A few hacks earlier was an adult-themed hack called CircleShake (http://www.aol.co.uk/video/circle-shake-demo-at-hackathon-sf-2013/517925667/ http://www.aol.co.uk/video/circle-shake-demo-at-hackathon-sf...) which might have set the mood for the audience a bit. * They had a break a few minutes later and after they came back the announcer mentioned that hack presentations need to meet a certain professional standard and that they wanted to have a better tone going forward. * TechCrunch has apologized via Twitter ("We apologize for two inappropriate hackathon presentations earlier today. We will more carefully screen from now on.") and on their site (http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/an-apology-from-techcrunch/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/an-apology-from-techcrunch/) * Here is a mirror of the video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ausf5taq1vy4g04/AOL.co.uk%20-Video%20-%20Titstare%20Demo%20at%20Hackathon%20SF%202013.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ausf5taq1vy4g04/AOL.co.uk%20-Video...

jlees 13y ago
Pretty sure it was 68. I'm in the audience and presented my back earlier. Although the hack was ridiculous, I think it's important to keep the facts straight. There was also a pretty awful 'asl' hack pitch later on, given by a woman. It definitely says something about TechCrunch that folks think this behaviour's OK at their event, but it was not their Disrupt keynote as some folks are seemingly interpreting! (It'll still hurt them a lot, though.) The 9 year old girl (who went later) is far more worthy of the coverage. :-)

jlees 13y ago

Pretty sure it was 68. I'm in the audience and presented my back earlier. Although the hack was ridiculous, I think it's important to keep the facts straight. There was also a pretty awful 'asl' hack pitch later on, given by a woman. It definitely says something about TechCrunch that folks think this behaviour's OK at their event, but it was not their Disrupt keynote as some folks are seemingly interpreting! (It'll still hurt them a lot, though.) The 9 year old girl (who went later) is far more worthy of the coverage. :-)