Virtual worlds are nothing new. Second Life blazed the trail and opened up people’s eyes to the various uses of a virtual environment. Now virtual worlds may have gone mainstream, as we’ve noticed a serious trend that consists of meshing a virtual world on top of the Facebook social graph. Turntable.fm, which we covered previously,…
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Learning a new language may have just gotten a little more social. Washington, DC-based startup PlaySay just launched its social foreign language learning application on Facebook. The PlaySay Facebook app uses pictures (leveraged from Flickr’s creative commons images) that can be dragged and dropped across the interface to construct and learn words and phrases. Once…
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Microstrategy has introduced a free Facebook app called Wisdom to help you organize your Facebook news updates. I have been testing this app for a few months, and here are some of my observations: Wisdom gives you a way to sort and see the most popular posts on your stream by number of likes or…
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Last Friday, San Francisco-based startup Holler quietly launched into the iTunes app store. We’ve been following the Holler team of four since AllFacebook and SocialTimes founder Nick O’Neill first shared with us his vision for improved social interactions through Holler at South by Southwest in March. In May, I got a preview of Holler as…
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PowerInbox, a startup that launched just 3 weeks and demo’d at our Tech Cocktail Boston mixer last week, has released the first, and only, third party Google+ client. They posted a survey on their homepage to find what PowerApps people would love to have in their email, and Google+ won by a landslide. Here’s how…
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Today Keepstream was acquired by InfoChimps, an API marketplace, for an undisclosed amount. Launched last year as part of the Austin-based Capital Factory startup accelerator, Keepstream, which we covered previously, allows you to easily curate various social media streams and save them to use later (long after Twitter and other streams may have disappeared). It comes…
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Ready for another social media platform? Los Angeles-based Hyphos promises to provide you with the closest group of friends you never knew you had – their platform allows you to find people around you based on interest and location. Founded earlier this year the Hyphos (Greek for “web”) team is made up of 8 current…
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Last week, 45,000 Salesforce users, developers, administrators, and C-level visionaries met at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco to swap information and learn about the latest Salesforce offerings and apps available on its platforms. Welcome to Dreamforce 2011. The conference was packed with keynote discussions about the computing past (primarily the PC era) and…
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Foodily, the self-described “most advanced recipe search engine in the world,” just announced their Facebook page to make it easier to find and share recipes with friends. For the food obsessed (and I count myself among them), this will make it super easy to find recipes on your friends’ feeds, which would otherwise basically disappear…
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If you want to connect with someone today, you have lots of options. You could email, Facebook message, tweet or direct message, IM, call, or use a carrier pigeon. With the number of ways to communicate continually growing, it has become difficult to stay up to speed with them all. For example, if someone sends…
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ActiveJunky.com makes it easy for the outdoor gear addict to access more than 80,000 different products 100+ affiliate sites and still wind up with a little cash in pocket. They have started a revolutionary way to reward users with a cash back system, making sure you leave happy while curbing spending guilt. ActiveJunky.com now gives…
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It’s no secret that social media can drive engagement and increase business. Companies looking for a great place to launch their online marketing efforts should check out GaggleAMP, a cloud-based social media marketing platform. GaggleAMP is the first social media tool specializing in social marketing amplification; it’s kind of like a business version of HootSuite….
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If you’ve ever worked in retailing, you know that brands and retailers need each other. Brands launch super creative online promotions, but hit a wall when it comes to marketing them locally. Retailers, on the other hand, have access to online local marketing channels, but need help with promotions. The solution? Promoboxx. Boston-based startup Promoboxx…
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Diehard fans often put up with clunky technology just to pursue their passion. But Fanfic.me, launching later this week, hopes to bring fanfiction addicts into the twenty-first century. “We’re making fanfiction as easy – and feature rich – as blogging,” explains Jacquelyn Abromitis, who owns an online education company and can’t pass up a good…
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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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Students Helping Startups is an innovative new program at Howard University in Washington, DC. Here’s the concept: There are lots of students learning about marketing and social media, and they need projects to take on for the semester. At the same time, Professor Angela Hausman noticed there are lots of startups out there who may enjoy some help…
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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
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
We are excited to announce the participating startups for Tech Cocktail's South by Southwest (SXSW) event: #Startuplife Celebration presented by .CO. It was one of... 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