When a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River on a freezing January day in 2009, some of the earliest photos came from users posting to Twitter and Flickr. Now, a new app called Spread is helping more user-generated photos make the news. Spread lets amateur and professional photographers submit their work for news…
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Last month we announced GE’s use of Instagram to search for the next GE “Instagrapher.” After more than 3,000 Instagram photos were submitted relating to the 4 core themes (Moving, Curing, Powering and Building) of GE, the search is over. GE has announced the next Instagrapher is Adam Senatori, whose winning photo was selected by a group of…
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If you’re not creatively marketing your company on social media with photos and videos, you might as well not be using Facebook or Twitter at all. Make it a lot easier on yourself using a very interesting photo advertising tool developed by 3 former Sony employees. In a nutshell, PhotoTouch lets you take a photo…
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Today GE launched a special search to find their next photographer who can share some of the groundbreaking research and technology that GE has been developing since the days of Edison. Previously, GE relied on renowned photographer Noah Kalina to share photos on Tumblr and Instagram. Now you can take your crack at the gig…
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With the likes of Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and Samsung all building mirrorless cameras as credible alternatives to DSLRs, Nikon has finally decided it’s time to show its hand. The company recently announced the launch of their first-ever mirrorless cameras, part of the new “Nikon 1” series. The first two models, called the J1 and V1,…
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Mooter Media, a digital media shop based in Australia, has announced $15M in US funding from San Francisco-based La Jolla Cove Investors, Inc. According to the company, this financing may represent one of the largest technology and online media investments in Australian corporate history. But the funds are not staying in Australia. Aside from their service…
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Stepcase has found a unique way to avoid feature bloat in its Steply photo apps: make a whole bunch of them. “Our philosophy is to create fun but very simple apps,” explains founder Leon Ho, who created the blog Lifehack.org. That means that each of their ten iOS photo apps has one basic function. They…
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A startup 11 years in the making – according to its news release – launched today in a very crowded social networking space: photo sharing. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the site FreezeCrowd offers a new social platform for uploading and sharing photos on the web. Photos can be tagged and users can add speech bubbles…
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Looking for a small camera that takes great photographs at a reasonable price point? You might want to check out the Olympus PEN E-PM1, which is due out next month. It is the smallest, lightest, and the most portable Olympus PEN camera and will be available for $499.99. The “mini Pen” offers very high image…
Read MoreDuring the Tech Cocktail SXSW event presented by LiveShare from Cooliris, attendees were sharing photos in real-time using LiveShare’s mobile application. The application had an event group which we also projected onto large jumbotron screens installed inside the venue. This made for an interactive experience as attendees could share and interact with the photos from…
Read MoreThe rise of mobile photography has turned everyone into paparazzi, documenting and sharing their latest happenings both publicly and privately. We’ve covered a couple of the most recent entrants in the mobile photo sharing space and today we are excited to examine another extremely interesting photo sharing service that has entered the mix. LiveShare by…
Read MoreThere seems to be a high correlation between people in tech and photography. Most of the tech-heads I know love their digital cameras. But for the most part, people still look at their cameras as a part of their family or vacation gear, not as a part of their work toolkit. The proliferation of photo…
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I grew up with quirky and fun Polaroid instant cameras and sunglasses in my house. I loved everything about the brand, including the colorful, shiny logo. So I was sad to see the company’s assets auctioned off in 2009 after Polaroid declared bankruptcy. Private equity firm Patriarch Partners, who targets distressed companies, snapped up Polaroids assets…
Read MoreHot Shot Media has become a leader in the social photography category with a platform upon which photographic social games, challenges, sweepstakes and contests are based. The group says it “lives at the convergence of three of the most prolific online phenomena: social networking, photo sharing and social gaming.” Sites such as Snapshot Scholar, a…
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 MoreLast week, we recapped the Tech Cocktail Startup Mixology Conference that took place in Chicago on October 28th. We had a great time in Chicago hosting the day full of events. If you were not able attend in person, I hope that you at least got to follow our Twitter updates and the live video…
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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