We just returned from a very busy seven days at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas where we hosted TECH cocktail SXSW: Blackout Sunday showcasing 30 startups to a crowd of close to 1000 attendees. Plus our fabulous team of TECH cocktail writers did a great job covering the conference [...]
Andrew Keen is no stranger to notoriety and criticism. His book “The Cult of the Amateur,” published in 2007, drew some harsh feedback from the technology community, as he argued that:
“a sea of amateur content threatens to swamp the most vital information,” and “blogs often reinforce one’s own views, rather than expand horizons.”
As you can imagine, [...]
This week at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh (@zappos) took it upon himself to create an unique experience and deliver happiness to event attendees by touring Austin in a “Delivering Happiness” Book Bus (@dhbookbus). The tour is lined up to help get the word out about Tony’s new book Delivering Happiness [...]
With the recent economic downturn, companies have started to look for ways to be more efficient and get the most out of their employees. This includes changing how employees work and collaborate with one another through the adoption of “Enterprise 2.0″ systems that promote rapid information sharing and collaboration. One of the companies trying to [...]
If you’re a sports fan, you know that during the course of a week there are a lot of games on TV. You’ll watch the teams you root for and maybe the biggest match-ups. But sometimes there are games that aren’t on your radar that turn out to be huge; it could be a major upset, [...]
As mobile devices have become more capable in the last couple of years, developers have come up with new and interesting ways to use them to interact with the world around us. This concept came to be known as “augmented reality.” One company that is pushing the envelope of AR is Munich-based mataio. It has created junaio, an AR [...]
Have you ever wanted to see pictures from a certain place during a particular time? Snapr, a soon-to-be released iPhone app, will let you do it. Snapr users will be able to take a picture, Geotag it, add text, and upload it.
Snapr developed by ME&A Mobile, will aggregate the Geotagged photos and display them online [...]
I would venture to guess that most of you, business owner or not, have wanted to buy a particular domain name and damned the luck, some else already bought it. This is even worse when you are a small business in a particular area and you want the best possible domain in order to drive [...]
If you want to stay connected to your friends, news sources, and traffic updates without taking your eyes off the road to text, Aha Mobile, has the solution: The Palo Alto, CA-based company has developed a back-end platform that safely connects drivers to one another and to the Web with personalized, interactive radio stations.
The Aha [...]