With the number of social platform options for sharing your status, location, photos and more, there is an opportunity to leverage the existing data to create interesting new experiences. If this sounds a little vague then let me explain. For example, if you own a coffee shop, it may be interesting to showcase some of…
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Finding the right team to help you grow your company is a must as you go from Alpha to Beta to live. Peter Corbett, CEO at iStrategyLabs, has been there and very humorously shared his experience on what it takes to build a team that loves working for you so much they don’t leave. iStrategyLabs…
Read MoreAs we head into the big game weekend, charge up your device du jour and get ready. The media frenzy is about to start, and here are a few companies ready for the Super Bowl action. Foursquare, which on every other day requires users to check in from a physical location, will allow users to…
Read MoreI’m sure you’ve noticed you’ve spent a lot more time on your mobile phone this year. Facebook has become largely addictive on the go – their mobile audience now represents 40% of their total usage. Mobile Twitter status updates, up 347%, have become expected multiple times a day – I personally use a Twitter Mobile…
Read MoreFestivals of myriad sort snare much of this week’s episode with two segments exploring the infiltration and impact of social technologies in two very different places – the Beltway and LGBT film. Entrepreneurs and event organizers Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber of Shiny Heart Ventures talk about Digital Capital Week – ten days of digital…
Read MoreDigital Capital Week (@DCWEEK) kicked off this past weekend in Washington, D.C. with an epic opening party Friday night at the Longview Gallery & Blagden Alley in Washington, DC. The party featured loads of entertainment – everything from bands and individual musicians, to performance artists, film projections, dancers and an interactive thankfulfor gratitude graffiti wall…
Read MoreBen’s Chili Bowl is a Washington, D.C. institution offering the best chili dogs in the nation’s capitol. Yesterday, they took a step forward in the digital age as they partnered with iStrategyLabs to make Digital Capital Week even bigger and tastier.. with Apps For Ben’s, a contest to develop the first Ben’s Chili Bowl App….
Read MoreThe United States Army is getting very serious about social Web technology these days. Last month, I got a preview of the new U.S. Army iPhone App as well as the launch of my.army.mil a personalized start page for the Web. Today, the Army has teamed up with DC-based iStrategyLabs to launch a developer contest…
Read MoreYesterday, I attended the Big Ideas Big Action (or BIBA) event in Washington, D.C. hosted by iStrategyLabs and FedScoop. The event exuded quirkiness, filled with Playdoh, blow up beach balls and dinosaurs, Etch-n-Sketch, Legos and more as it brought together a blended crowd of creatives, entrepreneurs, government officials and marketers from the Washington, D.C. region….
Read MoreI’m pleased to announce that DC.gov, under the leadership of Interim CTO Chris Willey, has empowered us to launch Apps for Democracy “Community Edition” which has just been announced by Mayor Fenty. AppsForDemocracy.org as been revamped to reflect the new campaign and $35,000 prize pool available to citizens interested in building a better DC through…
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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