We were one of the strong contenders for the TechCrunch50 People’s choice on Monday. With 37 chips (real votes) we were closely behind IamNews who went on stage as the People’s Choice. But with the RULES not being clearly defined, there was heck of a confusion as to understand what the ethics is around collecting votes (chips). Companies like GAZARO went on a hard core marketing campaign (came to be known as “the red girls”) which backfired with the company being blacklisted for unethical chip manipulation. Wednesday saw PeoplesBrowsr coming up as a strong contender, but also disqualified for collecting chips the earlier day (source: rumour). Several Demo Pit participants helped PeoplesBrowsr since they did not quite appreciate GAZARO’s marketing. Not all companies had “girls” like gazaro did. However, without clear guidelines from TechCrunch as to how you should get votes – it was a chaos among Demo Pit participants. Michael and his team hopefully learned a few tips from this. We went to Demo Pit with a strong hope that we will get on stage. But we do not regret. We made solid connections with several folks. Snipd, PeoplesBrowsr, Gazaro, NutShellMail, IndieGoGo, StyleIt (Korean Comany) – you all were terrific. Special thanks to our neighbours Spoink, Apprema and UFN.com for being a good sport.