Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists

We've gone through more than 1,000 companies to get down to the final 50 (okay, 52) that will present on stage at TechCrunch50 starting later this morning. We will be covering all of the companies as they present onstage or shortly after. But for now, here's a list of all the companies that made it (except the last one, which will be picked from the DemoPit by the audience at the event).

Learn more about these companies on CrunchBase by clicking "CB". You can also visit the official TechCrunch50 website to watch their presentations live, or stay tuned right here for coverage throughout the week.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Session 1: Youth and Culture. 9:00-10:15am

Blah Girls- Backed by Ashton Kutcher, Blah Girls is a gossip site that features a group of animated teenage girls who provide opinions on what?s going on in the world of entertainment Tweegee ( CB) ? A hub for tweens, Tweegee offers the youth market a suite of online tools for social interaction and organization Shryk ( CB) ? Web-based financial software for children aimed at promoting financial literacy and good saving habits Hangout Industries ( CB) ? Blends social networking with virtual worlds by creating a 3D, online environment where 16-24 year olds can chat and share media

Session 2: Memes & News. 10:30 - 11:45am

DotSpots ( CB) ? Tracks the memes spreading across the web, aggregates the content associated with them, and gives everyone Wikipedia-like control over that content Angstro ( CB) ? Lets you set up a feed of news about your friends, instead of news by your friends LiveHit ( CB) ? Tracks the music, videos, and entertainment sites people are clicking on right now Quant the News ( CB) ? Creator of StockMood.com, a service that tracks the sentiments of online news stories about stocks and then measures their potential impact on the direction of those stocks' prices

Session 3: Enterprise. 2:30 - 3:45pm

FairSoftware ( CB) ? Creates virtual shares around software projects that gives each contributor a portion of any resulting revenues Yammer ( CB) ? A web application designed for businesses and organizations that asks its users to answer the question, "What are you working on?" Connective Logic ( CB) ? Along with the company?s real-time middleware, Blueprint will make it easier for developers to design, generate code, and deploy complex multi-core software applications without requiring expertise in multi-threaded software development Devunity ( CB) ? A platform for writing code in a browser-based editor that doesn't force developers to use a proprietary layer OpenTrace- Traces items through the supply chain and adds them together to show the impact of products on the environment

Session 4: Advertising & Commerce Monetization. 3:45 - 5:00pm

Burt ( CB) ? Collects user data to tailor individual advertising campaigns and target users more effectively Adgregate Markets ( CB) ? Brings online stores to consumers through a display ad that is a fully transactional widget Adrocket ( CB) ? Contextual text-based advertising for email; assigns keywords to each address depending on known demographic and contextual data OtherInBox ( CB) ? Provides an easy way to quarantine the spam and the messages you receive from online services