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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Mayank Mehta, co-founder of Cooliris, stopped by our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour in March to chat with Frank Gruber. Mayank is kind of a startup old-timer at this point, since Cooliris was founded way back in 2006 when the Internet was evolving from a very tech-centric to a media-centric medium. Cooliris, if…
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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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SweetLabs recently announced Mixtape, the winner of first Pokki Challenge, “a contest that rewards web developers and designers for creating awesome desktop applications using HTML5.” The panel of four judges received more than 60 innovative applications over the course of just 6 weeks. Mixtape, created by Mohamed Tedjani Metfah, took home the $30,000 grand prize…
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Looking to spice up your iPhone’s protective unit? If you are like me, you currently have a huge Tech Cocktail sticker on the back of your black plastic case (you do, right?), but wouldn’t it be fun to have a little more flair? Look no further than Casetagram as it offers an online tool that…
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If you take photos (and I am guessing that all of you reading this do), check out DC-based startup ClingPhoto, which allow you to easily upload images from your desktop to create custom sized, high quality printed photos that cling to any indoor surface. That’s right – no tape, pins, or nails. They rely on…
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Organizing your photos can be a daunting task if you don’t have the proper tools for the job. Everpix, which launched last week, is hoping to help users make sense of the madness otherwise known as digital photo files. Everpix is a cloud-based photo management service that runs on your desktop and synchronizes with most…
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Angel-funded New York City startup Appetude has a plan – and part of that plan involves giving data to their competitors. More specifically, Appetude is contributing to OpenMenu, an open database of menus updated by restaurants. “We’re all innovating in food tech. Even if some person is going to compete with us, I still think…
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New York City-based Jux is doing what Tumblr did for blogs, but all over again, and possibly even better. Jux is for bloggers who want to make a creative splash using eye-catching web fonts, sharp color and unique layouts. The publishing platform boasts full-res images that stretch across your entire screen with visual appeal akin…
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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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We’ve seen glimmers of the convergence of 3D photos and videos with smartphones (like these) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the past couple of years. Yet until recently, most have only been available in Asia. This past summer, HTC released the EVO 3D on the Sprint Network, bringing 3D to the masses. To…
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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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We already know the impressive reach and popularity of Instagram. With the #Irene and #hurricane hashtags in full force, some fans took matters into their own hands and built Instacane.com, a collection of Instagram photos that utilize those hashtags. The site creators are @chris_ackermann and @petersng. We’ve been watching the site and pulled out some of our favorites which…
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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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Today Google launched Photovine, a mobile photo-sharing app. The application enables users to take a picture of something – let’s say an amazing picnic or double rainbow – and then upload it and share it. The apps name is derived from the “vine” part – someone else can see your photo and upload their own…
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I love love love sitting down on the couch with a glass of wine in one hand and a stack of catalogs next to me and just flipping through them for ideas and inspiration. Google has decided to make it a more engaging, social and creative endeavor – because heaven forbid something not be social…
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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