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Ponoko at TechCrunch40

Ponoko is per­haps Welling­ton’s hard­est to cat­e­gorise tech start­up. The gen­er­al idea seems to be to around empow­er­ing ordi­nary peo­ple to design items that Ponoko will help them man­u­fac­ture and dis­trib­ute.

This admit­ted­ly sounds a bit vague until you’ve been immersed in the ser­vice, as sev­er­al of the Welling­ton­ista (and many of our read­ers) have been. In fact, it’s now pos­si­ble to buy fel­low Welling­ton­ista Sue’s designed-by-Sue, built-by-Ponoko jew­ellery via the Ponoko site, with more to come.

So we are all very excit­ed about what Ponoko has to offer, and that view is shared by the peo­ple at TechCrunch, who invit­ed them and a hand­ful of oth­ers out of a field of 700 start-up hope­fuls world wide to present to today’s TechCrunch40 con­fer­ence in San Fran­cis­co.

This is a fan­tas­tic achieve­ment (the imme­di­ate evi­dence being the occa­sion­al 503 band­width errors on the Ponoko site after co-founder Dave ten Have’s pre­sen­ta­tion) and we hope this is the foun­da­tion for fur­ther and big­ger suc­cess!

• Dav­e’s pre­sen­ta­tion is live­blogged here
• Not­ed by Engad­get here.
• Zil­lions of men­tions via Google Blogsearch