Looking for an app that is as secure as your bank account and stores all of your important documents and information to completely organize your life? Whether you’re a supermom, an executive, a pet lover, a friend, or a spouse, Personal is something you should know about. Let’s say you’re a mom. Do you need…
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There are a lot of fun parts to running a company – assembling a great team, getting your MVP out there, being praised left and right by customers. An then there is the drudgery – meeting with investors, doing payroll and all the back-end stuff. One company is making one part of the drudgery aspect…
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With over 940 million social media users globally there is a ton of content being created every day. With this social revolution taking place, products like Klout, PeerIndex and, more recently, PeopleBrowsr KRED look to help people and companies understand who is having the most impact on others. Minneapolis agency Echidna has recently joined the…
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This week, Foursquare has seen users frantically checking in at Tuesday’s earthquake, and East Coasters are already vying to be a major part of Hurricane Irene. It was behavior like this—where users create a location that’s really an event—that spurred Foursquare to roll out a new feature this month: event check-ins. According to their blog:…
Read MoreMajor League Baseball pitchers and catchers reported to spring training in Florida and Arizona earlier this week and with it baseball has started to become top of mind. For example, as a lifetime Chicago Cubs fan I am gaining optimism that this could (once again) be the year the curse is broken and the Cubs…
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Every once in a while, someone comes along and decides we need a paradigm shift regarding how humans interact with computers. In this case, the shift is around how people work with their data. Today much of our data lives in different applications. Photos in email, news in browser, etc… That’s why Munich, Germany based…
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Foursquare shared some data today as they reflected on 2010. According to their recent blog post which included a nice infographic, Foursquare grew 3400 percent in 2010. They also had their 6,000,000th user sign up last week. Here is a snapshot of some of the check-in data: Totaled 381,536,305 check-ins in every country, with the last…
Read MoreFacebook has over 500 million users and with it a dizzying array of friendship connections. Facebook engineer intern Paul Butler recently analyzed the data to create a visualization of these connections. In a recent Facebook blog post Paul explained: “Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens…
Read MorePalantir Technologies is a company that was born out of Palo Alto by a few PayPal alumni and Stanford computer scientists, so it’s natural they would have an office in the Washington DC area, right? Well, maybe not so obvious, but they are here for a reason – our Government. What does Palantir do? They…
Read MoreThis is a good week to be a fan of data. The Economist devoted a issue full to data, stating that: “In recent years Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP between them have spent more than $15 billion on buying software firms specialising in data management and analytics. This industry is estimated to be worth more than…
Read MoreWith the Internet a mainstay in almost everyone’s daily life, let’s take a second and reflect on it. To help us reflect, Washington, D.C. based creative agency JESS3 created the motion-graphics, visualization video (above) titled The State of The Internet showcasing lots of data associated with the use of the Web. “I made the video…
Read MoreIt seems like the fight for check-in dominance keeps heating up. Last week, seasoned Bay-area community powered venue review site, Yelp, added the ability to check into places that have been reviewed on the site. This was no doubt in response to the growing popularity of location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla. Having the ability…
Read MoreOne thing is certain these days, we all deal with a lot of data, as individuals and more importantly as companies. As individuals, we are bombarded with data from RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, SMS, and so on. It takes a lot of our energy to intake, process and retain all of this so we can,…
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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