We all know that content is “king.” Thoughtful, meaningful, original online content garners high SEO results – true back in the early days of search engines, and still true now. However, if content is king, then smart and thoughtful user-generated content about your company is, well, pure gold. And like gold, you have to sift…
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While DCWEEK offers content and events for everyone, the festival offers a special place for entrepreneurs and those looking at creating new ventures. In fact, on Thursday, November 10th at the DCWEEK Core Conference, there is an entire track focused on entrepreneurship and new ventures, hosted in the Spectrum Theater. Here are the highlights. The…
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Is your life becoming swamped with feeds? From Twitter to Google Reader, if you’re like me, you have too much content to sift through when you want to catch up on your feed reading. A new social network, called Percolate, can help you sift through those feeds and bubble up the best content. Percolate aggregates…
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Starting in mid-July, Wikipedia quietly launched a new feature to its over 3.7 million English-language entries: the article feedback tool. An inconspicuous box at the bottom of articles, it asks you to “rate this page” on a scale of 1-5 as trustworthy, objective, complete, and well-written. Wikipedia’s first goal for the project is to improve…
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If you produce video, audio, images, documents, apps, or any other digital content, a new Chicago-based startup can help you quickly and easily set up an online store to sell and deliver content to your target market. DailyDigital provides a professional, free SaaS for digital publishers via digital storefronts that embed on any web or…
Read MoreFor all you hoops fans out there, we’re smack in the middle of the NCAA Tournament Championship known as March Madness. While many of your brackets have certainly been busted, there is a great chance you’ve been watching the games from one of your mobile devices. This year, CBS and Turner launched native apps for…
Read MoreThese days you don’t need to be a programming expert who writes hundreds of hours of code to create a mobile app. In fact, anyone can create one using YAPPER, Your App Maker! YAPPER makes mobile app creation a breeze by offering a mobile publishing platform for media organizations, publishers and brands. You can mobilize…
Read MoreLooking for some alternative entertainment online? Rowdy Orbit may be just for you as it is an online destination for professionally produced, original Web series. The content is targeted towards African American, Latino, Hispanic, and Native American viewing audiences. The site also aims to help support media creators based on their goals and objectives. Rowdy…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This article was contributed to TECH cocktail by John Guidos who practices law out of Chicago, Illinois at the Law Offices of Guidos & Pierotti LLP. Check out their website at: gplawchicago.com or follow John on Twitter: @johnguidos. Legal battles over online postings are being waged across the nation at an increasing rate. The…
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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