Impressions from TechCrunch SF Hackathon Part 2

TechCrunch hosted a hackathon before the 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt in SF this weekend.  Part one of this post deals with Hackathon logistics and presentations; Part 2 will be some quick thoughts on some of the ideas presented. Here are some of the overall impressions followed by tweet-length reactions to the 60-second presentations. You can see all the demos here and the top winners with videos and pics are available here.

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Weekly Round-Up 10/04/10

Social Media

• What a Wiretappable Internet Could Mean for Facebook, Apple, Google, and You
• Inside Gatorade’s Social Media ‘Mission Control’ : Team Conducts Thousands of 1-to-1 Convos.
• Interesting story on Twitter’s refusal (for now) to sell Promoted Tweets for political campaigns

Apple

• FastCompany finds out what’s inside Apple TV–you know, extra slots, spots and a hackable future
• Digg’s Kevin Rose thinks Apple TV can change everything.
• Could it be true? Internet Tethering Coming to iPad [RUMOR]

AOL Acquisitions

• Kind of a big deal as AOL moves to own culture content, via Tim Armstrong: “We Got TechCrunch!”

Also:

• 5min media video acquired for $65mm
• AOL acquires Thing Labs founded by Jason Shellen — Congratulations to Jason and team as he continues his winning streak building great value and bringing it into a larger platform (past wins include Google Reader, greenlighting FeedBurner at Google and Blogger with Biz & Ev).

Google

• What’s display advertising look like by 2015? 75% will be social, and mobile equals #1 screen for  engagement
• Google launches worldwide Android smartphone gallery.