Let us start at the outset by saying that we aren’t the best headline writers. But that’s not the point.

A few folks from the Kosmix team attended the annual TechCrunch August Capital party this past Friday night. As a sponsor of the event, we had the opportunity to set up a booth and show off our shiny new alpha version of Kosmix.com.

The feedback was extremely positive and insightful. We’d also like to state for the record that this had nothing to do with those wonderful mojitos which the bartenders mixed with impressive flair. Kosmixers Vijay, Nicky and Matthew manned the booth while the rest of us walked around talked Kosmix with the 750 other entrepreneurs, investors, press people and professional glad handers that packed the event. You might also be interested to know that one of our demo topics of the night was Akon’s November 2006 album “Konvicted“. Why? Presumably because Akon abuses the rewriting of the letter C to the letter K almost as much as Kosmix, but this is pure speculation

Proceeds from the event went directly to Malaria Now, “an inclusive, grassroots movement to control malaria”. Jeff Weiner presented one of those massive checks that we can’t help but associate with Publisher’s ClearningHouse and Kosmix sponsored a business card raffle that gave away four tickets to indoor skydiving!

If you were at the event and have photos to share, drop us a line at saumil AT kosmix DOT com and we’ll link to them.