For startups, getting feedback quickly as you are building a company, brand, product, and service is super important, especially during private beta. Need to get that MVP out the door! Ottawa-based startup qidiq can definitely help with that; their tagline is questions done quick. Qidiq lets you ask a bunch of people their opinions in…
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Nobody – and I mean nobody – likes the weary headache of finding themselves stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Lucky for us, newly-launched Vocalyze Media aims to make the commute a little easier to get through. The mobile news and entertainment service turns tweets, blogs, RSS feeds and other written web content into real-time audio podcasts,…
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I am a big fan of Chartbeat, the real-time analytics platform, as it offers an up-to-the-second look at who is visiting a specific site, what pages are being looked at and where traffic is coming from. It also offers an iPhone application for a quick snapshot on-the-go. It can be addictive as you watch the…
Read MoreLooking for a deal around you right now? DashMob looks to provide real-time, location-based deals for local businesses. The company is joining the ranks of many deal sites, but rather than buying a deal to be used a few weeks from now you receive an instant deal that is based on your current location and…
Read MoreMany of us love our real-time streams in Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. However, as they grow, so does the desire to compartmentalize and look for smaller communities for our various needs or interests. And we’ve seen plenty of them popping up – from Yammer and Present.ly, that connect corporate environments as well as smaller…
Read MoreWhile Google and Yahoo Answers still offer a place to pose your questions, new Q&A products and forums have been popping up like dandelions in an open meadow lately. Some of the most recent products include Aardvark, which sold to Google this past February for around $50 million and Hunch which was founded by Flickr founder Caterina…
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to see pictures from a certain place during a particular time? Snapr, a soon-to-be released iPhone app, will let you do it. Snapr users will be able to take a picture, Geotag it, add text, and upload it. Snapr developed by ME&A Mobile, will aggregate the Geotagged photos and display them…
Read MoreIn a world that demands information, breaking news, and constant updates, sometimes it’s hard to find out what’s really hot. Twitter and Facebook have played a big role in the real-time news experience, sharing trending topics and news feed updates with social recommendation mechanisms built in. Bigger companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have also been…
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to see pictures from a certain place during a particular time? Snapr, a soon-to-be released iPhone app, will let you do it. Snapr users will be able to take a picture, Geotag it, add text, and upload it. Snapr developed by ME&A Mobile, will aggregate the Geotagged photos and display them…
Read MoreIn case you missed it, Seesmic has launched a new product called Seesmic Look. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur has been tipping his hand on the new product all week and it seems that all the tech reporter teasing has paid off as it was all the talk as it launched. So what is Seesmic…
Read MoreI know Google has been making a few different announcements recently regarding integrating real-time search but I just encountered a new user interface in Google for the first time. They even released this video about the new real-time search: If you do a search for “tech cocktail twitter” or “frank gruber twitter” you will find…
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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