Touted as a Flickr competitor, Toronto-based photo sharing site 500px got a $525,000 vote of confidence from investors in June and – more importantly – from 3 million monthly unique visitors this fall. They released an updated iPad app last Friday, where you can follow photographers and see their favorite photos. 500px’s free platform uses…
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With each passing year, how we collectively look back at that fateful day changes. The earliest anniversaries were so raw and painful, many were not ready to relive the details. Now, ten years later, while it still may feel like yesterday for many people, we know in our hearts it is particularly important to never…
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The August 12 launch of PicPlum, which sends monthly shipments of photos to your friends or family, sparked debate about the future of printed photos. Some wonder why the forward-thinking Y Combinator is funding a startup based on a dying medium. But talk to cofounder Akshay Dodeja, and he’ll explain why you should believe in…
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Empire Avenue is a social stock market game that turns people into stocks and tracks them along as they participate in social media. It is a social platform centered on your social currency, and it allows everyone to embrace and grow their personal brand, make new value-based connections online and get the most out of…
Read MoreSeeing the rumors today that Delicious may be shut down by Yahoo makes me want to vomit. Ok, that’s sugar-coating it a little, but you get the idea. And it’s now been confirmed by Liz Gannes that the social bookmarking site that lead the “Web 2.0″ movement with its open sharing infrastructure is going to…
Read MoreThere are currently thousands of photo applications in the Apple iTunes App Store. I just counted over 1,300 photography applications that have been released since June 2010. So this makes for a rather competitive landscape. But with all the selection, there are certain applications for certain situations. One photo app that has risen to the…
Read MoreYesterday Google continued it’s winter shopping spree as it announced it had acquired Picnik, an online photo editing application. Other recent purchases include the acquisition of social search Aardvark and the acquisition of iPhone email application reMail. For those of you unfamiliar with Picnik, it is a Seattle based start-up that offers a pretty slick…
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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