Looking to take advantage of everyone’s hyper connectivity online, San Francisco-based RockMelt rolled out today to offer a new Web browser directly connected to a Facebook account. RockMelt is backed by serial entrepreneur and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. RockMelt is based off the open source platform Chromium, which is the same project that Google’s Chrome…
Read MoreHunch co-founder, Caterina Fake, is leaving the 3 year old startup. Partially because the company is changing direction and she feels her skills are no longer needed. But more importantly is the relationship with her co-founder, Chris Dixon, which apparently has degraded to a point they no longer want to work together. Fake will remain…
Read MoreThe new iPad app OnFilm is allowing anyone to watch live TV. Not sure how they are not getting sued but give it whirl and let us know what you think. From mediamemo.allthingsd.com Free, live streams of their stuff delivered to your iPad, via the browser. How is this possible? It shouldn’t be, according to…
Read MoreWe recently published a guest post about building mobile applications by Ken Yarmosh, proprietor of a boutique mobile agency based in the Washington, D.C. area. Ken is also the author of the new book, App Savvy, published by O’Reilly, so we decided to ask him a few questions about the book, his journey and the future of mobile…
Read MoreSocial search has been talked about for years and to date no one company has nailed it. So we are interested to see if the integration of Facebook into Bing will create a sticky social search experience. Past attempts have failed because they were social but they expected the users to help dictate search results….
Read MoreThe folks at 37Signals had 3 hours of free time so they whipped up this little ditty for the iPad. It was inspired by their office and looks to help foster collaboration. What do you think? From 37signals.com One of the coolest things about Chalk is it’s a website. There’s no app store approval process…
Read MoreThese guys can raise money even in a “down” economy. Congrats! From gigaom.com The fundraising crunch doesn’t seem to be hitting venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which announced today that it has raised $650 million for a second fund, more than doubling the $300 million it raised 16 months ago Read more at gigaom.com
Read MoreAs we’ve toured the country this year showcasing early stage startups and tech innovations, we’ve seen dozens of location based services and daily deal sites. Groupon and LivingSocial have been the talk of Chicago and DC while other local deal startups have been positioning themselves to coat-tail off of their success and notoriety, finding unique…
Read MoreSo you’re the mayor on Foursquare huh? Now that may actually have some kind of real value as Foursquare has solidified the rules. From readwriteweb.com Location based social network Foursquare has quietly added a new feature that allows venue owners to revoke the mayorship of users they believe have won their titles illegitimately. Mayorship is…
Read MoreToday is election day and as proud American citizens we can all head to the ballots to express our right to vote. To help motivate those who might be socially, geo-locally motivated, Foursquare has teamed with DC-based JESS3 to create a new site to track the election polling participation at elections.foursquare.com. JESS3 designed the site…
Read MoreThis week’s show is all about disruption and changing paradigms in two very different spaces. It may not be a “major” election year, but this year’s cycle is getting plenty of attention – and that is due in very large part to the way in which candidates are leveraging new media technologies to engage voters….
Read MoreI am a huge fan of Mad Men, the show of the ad men and women of the 1960′s. In the series the main character, Don Draper, is a self proclaimed genius at figuring out what people really want and presenting them with an ad and a product. Throughout the series, the ad agencies are…
Read MoreGoogle has admitted it recorded data from open wifi networks in Britain which included personal information. Is this surprising from a company that has a motto reminding them “Don’t Be Evil”? We would expect more from Google. From dailymail.co.uk Google was accused of spying on households yesterday after it admitted secretly copying passwords and private…
Read MoreAre you fascinated with space and technology? I am. It was only a matter of time before the paths of social technology and space crossed – now social geo-location has gone to space. Last week, NASA teamed up with Gowalla to create some virtual items that will inspire discovery by connecting people with the places…
Read MoreWant to become a published author? Yeah, me too. In most cases, this is accomplished in one of two ways: Gaining recognition from one of the major publications. For 99.9% of writers, this is nothing more than a pipe dream. Self publishing and distributing an ebook. This has been the popular route for many bloggers over the…
Read MoreSince 2007, the team of Brad Feld and David Cohen has been running the TechStars incubator program and seed funding startups. The program, which started in Boulder but has quickly expanded to Boston, Seattle and New York, provides startup founders with support, advice and mentoring during the program. Some past successes have included SocialThing, Filtrbox,…
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