spellr.us officially launched today at the TechCrunch50 - 2008.

TechCrunch50 is a conference put together by the highly respected technology blog TechCrunch.

The Conference has the most incredible line-up of panelists.

It has been an honour to listen to such highly experienced and capable technology start-up experts give their opinion on a range of topics.

TechCrunch selects 50 applications to present at The Conference main stage and a couple of hundred to present in the “demo pit” spread out over 3 days.

spellr.us just missed the final cut but was offered a place in the Demo Pit.

Considering over 1000 companies applied we are quite proud of being invited into the Demo Pit.

I spent the day presenting spellr.us to dozens of people - including journalists, bloggers, investors, developers, and students.

The response from some was vague and indifferent, but generally people LOVED the application.

A highlight was getting to meet Mark Cuban.

Mark Cuban is the worlds 113th richest person and a highly respected entrepreneur. He also holds the record for the largest ecommerce transaction ever - paying $40 million for his private jet when purchased over the internet.

I gave Mark a quick demo of spellr.us - he asked to scan his personal blog - he grasped it really quickly and wished us luck!

If we have 1/100 of the luck of Mark we should be fine

We also got to meet Jason Kincaid who is the author of the first (and second) TechCrunch article about spellr.us - which in many ways was what really kickstarted the mass interest in spellr.us.

We scored some blog / article mentions:

- one of the bloggers I demo’ed spellr.us to.
- ZDNet Article - congrats to Melbourne Cinergix for making the top 50!
- iTnews article
- smartcompany article

Below find some photos and videos taken on the day.

All in all the vibe at the conference has been great and I think I now have just as many American and Israeli (Israel was heavily represented at all levels of the conference) friends as Australian ones

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A real fan from CollectiveX who were one of our neighbours at the TechCrunch50. They were a friendly crew and Shaun in particular was really impressed with spellr.us, particularly when we found some great obscure errors for him.

Maybe his energy had something to do with the fact that we were feeding them Caramel Koala chocolates the whole day.