>> Hi, this is Rafe Needleman from CNET WebWear, and
I've just come back from the TechCrunch50 conference
where of course the big news is the swag bag. That's
right, this is the cool little bag you get if you were
at TechCrunch, and these were the goodies that were
inside it. Now first of all, nice bag. Canvas,
military, low observable, so if you're on a stealth
mission this will not reflect too much light. Very
important. All right, in the department of obsolete
products is Microsoft Money Plus software. Now I
understand that Microsoft is getting out of the business
of distributing this product in a disc. I guess they're
just trying to clear out their warehouse. So we'll try
it out. All right. Clothing department, first of all
the Mulhollow [Assumed spelling] hat. Jason Calcanas
[Assumed spelling] co-host of the event is a founder of
Mulhollow, so of course he gets to distribute a hat. In
the T-shirt department -- two shirts. We have the
Yammer T-shirt. Yammer is an enterprise twitter. Cool
product. And Salesforce.com which I guess was a sponsor
-- they didn't present. Yahoo had two things, they had
a notepad and mints, and at the cocktail party a glowing
purple ice cube when I wouldn't let them put in my
drink. That stuff scares me. You put it in the water
and it glows. Gum from Fenwick, from all those
fast-talking lawyers. I think this is gum. Fortune
cookies from App Center [Assumed spelling]. A tree from
Causecast. Plant a tree -- this is a site about good
causes and this is a tree you can plant. This poor tree
has probably been stifling in this bag for weeks.
Anyway, finally, sadly the coolest thing in the swag bag
is this little glowy ball that changes colors from
iCents.net, the Ajax payment tool. It's the glow ball.
That's the TechCrunch50 swag bag, your intrepid reporter
Rafe Needleman here reporting from TechCrunch50.
