Rather than counting pennies with Google AdWords, bloggers have a new option to make money: Blogmutt, which was showcased at our Tech Cocktail Boulder mixer. BlogMutt writers create posts for companies that have no time to blog using suggested keywords. Companies then browse the crowdsourced entries and pick one post per week. BlogMutt’s challenge is…
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LiveFyre, the San Francisco-based software platform that enables anyone to add a commenting system to a website, has secured an additional $4.5 million in a new round of funding led by Greycroft Partners and digital media investors Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital. Livefyre’s commenting platform is currently installed on more than 14,000 websites, including…
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Bloggers and iPad lovers, get ready for a new app that may take your blogging to the next level. DraftCraft, which will be released later this month, allows bloggers to write and post to any platform without complex coding. So, whether you’re a die-hard WordPress fan or you swear by Blogger, you’ll be able to…
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New York City-based Jux is doing what Tumblr did for blogs, but all over again, and possibly even better. Jux is for bloggers who want to make a creative splash using eye-catching web fonts, sharp color and unique layouts. The publishing platform boasts full-res images that stretch across your entire screen with visual appeal akin…
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Today news has come that TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington is leaving TechCrunch and Aol, the company that it was acquired by just under a year ago, to start his own venture fund which is being dubbed the CrunchFund. The fund has Aol as a limited partner along with a list of venture firms…
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Diehard fans often put up with clunky technology just to pursue their passion. But Fanfic.me, launching later this week, hopes to bring fanfiction addicts into the twenty-first century. “We’re making fanfiction as easy – and feature rich – as blogging,” explains Jacquelyn Abromitis, who owns an online education company and can’t pass up a good…
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Students Helping Startups is an innovative new program at Howard University in Washington, DC. Here’s the concept: There are lots of students learning about marketing and social media, and they need projects to take on for the semester. At the same time, Professor Angela Hausman noticed there are lots of startups out there who may enjoy some help…
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Earlier this month, I reviewed the highly publicized launch of Jumio Netswipe. The company hasn’t wasted anytime expanding their reach into the online payment space. The company has now launched a WordPress plugin aimed at the small businesses and bloggers who utilize the platform to power their websites. Websites who utilize the plugin will see…
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I am a big fan of Chartbeat, the real-time analytics platform, as it offers an up-to-the-second look at who is visiting a specific site, what pages are being looked at and where traffic is coming from. It also offers an iPhone application for a quick snapshot on-the-go. It can be addictive as you watch the…
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Taking a page from the Tumblr and Posterous book, Smore, an Israeli startup, has simplified publishing even more. All you need to get started is a Facebook account. Simply log into Smore using Facebook Connect, and you will be on your way to creating posts. Drag images into the post, add text and links, use their selection…
Read MoreRuining Monday mornings across the world, Tumblr, the micro-blogging service, continues to be offline – 14 hours and counting. Who cares? Plenty of people. More than 5 million people log in daily for the quick, mixed media posts Tumblr affords. Twitter is filled with complaints from users and theories about the cause of the downtime. Tumblr, also taking…
Read MoreToday’s marketers are hard at work creating huge evangelical communities for their products and services. One key group of consumers that these marketers are connecting with are bloggers. Now thanks to BlogDash, marketers and PR professionals have an easier way to find which bloggers they ought to target and why. Founded in NYC in 2010,…
Read MoreYesterday, the tech world was surprised to find that the story Om Malik broke Monday was confirmed, as AOL CEO, Tim Armstrong traveled to San Francisco to announce the acquisition of TechCrunch by AOL. This acquisition strikes extremely close to home as a former AOLer and early TechCrunch contributor. I started my blogging career in…
Read MoreDo you know someone looking for a summer internship? TECH cocktail is looking for summer interns. Aside from hosting our popular mixer events and our upcoming conference, both of which are “cocktails of tech people,” we are working on some other community projects and need a hand. Do you have a son, daughter, friend neighbor,…
Read MoreYou have probably seen the Lijit search widget on a number of sites around the Web. It offers some great site search analytics in a manageable and easy to digest format. I even get a weekly statistics email from Lijit keeping me updated as to how search is performing every week and what people are…
Read MoreMy first day working at AOL back in the fall of 2006 I had the pleasure of having lunch with Sphere CEO and founder Tony Conrad as he was visiting to start working with the AOL. Since then, Sphere which I covered previously when it launched in May 2006, worked with both AOL News and…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More