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Everything, Everywhere, All The Time »
The web is a blessing and a curse: there is simply too much information. And it’s coming at us too quickly. Meanwhile, the tools we have to process the data flow are failing miserably, and yet, very few people are building us better ones. Instead, these days, it’s far easier to build the next great photo-sharing app than it is a better Gmail.
Everything, Everywhere, All The Time »
The web is a blessing and a curse: there is simply too much information. And it’s coming at us too quickly. Meanwhile, the tools we have to process the data flow are failing miserably, and yet, very few people are building us better ones. Instead, these days, it’s far easier to build the next great photo-sharing app than it is a better Gmail.
Movilway Expands Mobile Payment Services To The »
Movilway, the company pioneering prepaid mobile payments in Central and South America, recently updated their arsenal of tools to include a new custom Android tablet Point Of Sale (POS) terminal as well as a new MoviPIN system for online purchases. Both systems — available at select locations — bring digital purchasing power to those without
2012: The Year For Change In Online Sports Streaming »
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Ruslan Kogan, the founder and CEO of Kogan.com, a manufacturer and direct retailer of consumer electronics. He is a serial entrepreneur, a controversial figure, one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and has become Australia’s wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. 2012
Key Takeaways From The Facebook Marketing Conference »
Facebook has a grand scheme to make advertising on its properties less risky and less guess-work than buying ads anywhere else on the Internet. Facebook wants ads to be content, and now its Reach Generator allows advertisers to pay a fixed fee to guarantee that their content is seen by 75 percent of their fans. Of all the announcements made at
SV Angel Also Buying Up Foursquare Stock. Dennis »
Spark Capital isn’t the only existing investor buying Foursquare employee stock in an up round, I’ve learned. Legendary investor SV Angel is, too. That’s an unusual move considering that the firm typically focuses on early-stage deals. Why? Yes, there’s the promise of Foursquare becoming the way that you find interesting
Porn And Parenting: The Brave New World »
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Jesse Stay, the author of Google+ For Dummies, Facebook Application Development For Dummies, and the currently in-progress book, Google+ Marketing For Dummies. Jesse consults with organizations big and small on social media technologies, marketing, and design philosophies. O wonder! How many
Post MWC: Total Immersion’s Augmented Reality »
Another Augmented Reality update from Total Immersion popped up on my radar at this year’s Mobile World Congress. This nifty app, demoed at the Texas Instruments booth, is loaded with retail potential for e-commerce situations. This is not the first AR tool we’ve seen to assist with retail apparel purchases, however it is one of the best.
Don’t Be Afraid To Go Pink: Designing Great Tech »
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Sarah Paiji, co-founder and CEO of Snapette, a mobile fashion shopping startup that drives users to nearby stores. She is an alumni of 500 Startups accelerator and dropped out of Harvard Business School to work on Snapette full-time with her co-founder Jinhee Ahn Kim. Snapette Director of
Work 3.0: How The Employment Model Needs to Change »
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Gary Swart, the CEO of oDesk, the fast-growing online workplace where eContractors are currently earning more than $300 million a year. With the economy still struggling to recover, key indicators of economic performance are largely focused on traditional employment — we are fixated on how many
How To Manufacture Desire »
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Nir Eyal, a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir blogs about technology and behavior engineering at nirandfar.com. Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it. Go ahead,
Aurasma Augments Reality Anywhere — Even Waiting For »
At many conferences, like the Mobile World Congress, it seems the best demos usually end up happening while waiting in line for lunch or for a cab. While rolling through the pile of video content I collected at the MWC this year, I ran back across this Augmented Reality demo by Aurasma. It is a perfect example of the “elevator demo” and in one
5 Reasons Why Your Facebook Store Might Be Struggling »
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Doron Simovitch, the co-founder & CEO of SortPrice.com, a shopping search engine and Facebook eCommerce solutions provider. Doron has more than 15 years of experience in managing technology and eCommerce and has been quoted in the New York Times, CNN, and other media outlets as an expert in
Three Free Healthcare Apps That Empower Patients »
Editor’s Note: Iltifat Husain is the founder and Editor-in-chief of iMedicalApps.com, a physician-operated technology review publication and is currently an Emergency Medicine resident physician at Wake Forest University’s School of Medicine. The significant adoption of smartphones among physicians has not only led to an explosion of
How I Screwed Yasser Arafat Out of $2 Million, the »
Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book is I Was Blind But Now I See. You can follow him @jaltucher. (Illustrated by Nathan Lueth. See also the non-comic book version: “How I Screwed Yasser
Highlight Needs To Let You Switch Off ‘Friend Of »
Ambient location app Highlight is a big deal. Eldon likes it, Scoble likes it, MG and Mike like it and Grindr fan Charlie Cheever likes it. More importantly, I like it. Before you call me out for being slightly narcissistic with the above statement (which wouldn’t make me at all unique in my field), here’s why the fact that I like it
App.net Wants To Help Mobile Apps Stand Out At SXSW »
Here’s one of the great things about South by Southwest: Everyone wants to launch a cool new product there. Here’s one of the worst things about South by Southwest: Everyone wants to launch a cool new product there. That’s why Dalton Caldwell, CEO of App.net, is holding a special App Showcase at Beauty Bar on the afternoon of
From Zynga To Flipboard: Why All Eyes Are On China For »
Editor’s note: Chris Shen is vice president at Chinese gaming company The9. Prior to joining The9, he served as group account director and account director for several advertising agencies in Shanghai and Taipei. If you spend any time speaking with Western mobile companies, one topic that’s likely to pop up is their “China strategy.”
One Year Later: How Google Panda Changed Our Business »
Editor’s note: Matt Moog is the founder and CEO of Viewpoints.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattMoog. Google Panda strikes February 24, 2011 was a day that will live in infamy for the team here at Viewpoints. That was the day of the Google Panda update. Up until that point we had enjoyed four years of consistent traffic growth to
PinClout Gets A Cease-And-Desist From Klout, Will »
“Klout for Pinterest” is a catchy company description, but it might not be a good idea to take it too literally. Startup PinClout launched about a week ago, and its name seemed to make the company’s mission clear — to measure influence on fast-growing Pinterest. And there’s been positive interest, with some tech press
Google Drive And The Cloud Wars »
Editor’s note: Aaron Levie is co-founder and CEO at Box. Follow him on Twitter @levie. For the past six years, any startup touching the cloud storage space has lived in anticipation and fear of Google’s entry into the market. G(od) Drive’s arrival was meant to instantly commoditize existing offerings, kill all future opportunity for new
On The Shoulders Of Giants: Y Combinator Demo Day »
Every year, Y Combinator Demo Day, where the latest batch of incubated startups make their pitch to investors, gets a little bigger. (Or a lot.) Now, for the first time since the event began in 2005, it’s moving to a new home — the Computer History Museum. At the last Demo Day, in August (they’re held twice a year), you could already
Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here’s Why »
The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circles and into the mainstream. So what can we expect to blow up next week, like Twitter, Foursquare, GroupMe and Beluga have in past years? Highlight is
Valve Rumored To Be Working On Steam-Based Console »
Valve, creators of (among other things) the Half-Life franchise and Steam, the gold standard for digital game distribution, are said to be getting into the hardware game. If The Verge’s tip is to be believed, the company is working with partners to establish a base PC gaming standard to sell as a packaged deal, a sort of set-top box PC that
Pair Programming Considered Harmful? »
“We have trained, hired, and rewarded people to be cowboys. But it’s pit crews that we need,” said Atul Gawande — a surgeon and Harvard professor who writes for The New Yorker in his copious spare time — in a recent TED talk. He was talking about doctors, but what tech profession might fit that description as well? Yes,
UX Expert, 23, Almost Refused Entry To Ireland To Hire »
As tech becomes the world’s hottest subject and one of its few growth sectors, the international borders are straining as talent moves around the globe in search of the best startups and projects. European countries are increasingly alive to this, and we’ve seen huge efforts made by tech celebrities to lobby the White House over the
Gillmor Gang: Living on Rented Time »
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — go through an entire show (almost) without mentioning Apple’s big event next week. Instead, we discuss Netflix’ new 26 hour movie model, why news silos can be good for you, the relationship between the Republican primary process and the
Co-Founder Of Manteresting, Pinterest For Men, On What »
We’ve found Pinterest clones galore since the social pinboard site first launched, but it would seem that the fad is going in a new direction. Recently I stumbled upon Manteresting.com, a Pinterest for men, and couldn’t help but seek out the founders for a quick little interview. In it, co-founder Brandon and I discuss what it means
I’m A Startup — Why Am I Being Inundated With »
Editor’s note: Robert Scoble is Rackspace’s Startup Liaison and a blogger. Follow him on Twitter @scobleizer. Over the past few weeks, when I’ve visited several startup incubators from Stanford’s Start X, to Los Angeles’ Start Engine, to the NewMe Accelerator, I have noticed many cloud computing companies hoping to
Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor Takes The Guesswork Out Of »
Houseplants can be hard to care for, even when watered regularly on a sunny windowsill. A new device from Swiss startup Koubachi takes the guesswork out of plant care through real-time monitoring and notifications when the plant needs attention. “Many people don’t know what plant they have and what it needs,” says Koubachi
