Here at Tech Cocktail, we like technology. We are lucky that we get to cover a lot of really interesting startups and apps, some of which we adopt and realize we cannot live without. To celebrate Thanksgiving, we thought we’d share with you all the bits of technology we are thankful for, from devices to…
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Bloggers and iPad lovers, get ready for a new app that may take your blogging to the next level. DraftCraft, which will be released later this month, allows bloggers to write and post to any platform without complex coding. So, whether you’re a die-hard WordPress fan or you swear by Blogger, you’ll be able to…
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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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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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Earlier this month, I reviewed the highly publicized launch of Jumio Netswipe. The company hasn’t wasted anytime expanding their reach into the online payment space. The company has now launched a WordPress plugin aimed at the small businesses and bloggers who utilize the platform to power their websites. Websites who utilize the plugin will see…
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WordPress is a platform that started as a blog platform but now powers close to 13 percent of websites on the Internet. This is a pretty amazing statistic as WordPress started out very much an underdog when it launched with such blog platform competition as Blogger, Moveable Type and LiveJournal already taking care of most…
Read MoreTurning what people post on social media into compelling stories – that is the stated goal of Storify, a site that aims to aid the efforts of journalists and bloggers to curate the real-time web. Burt Herman is the founder of Storify. A self-described entrepreneurial journalist, he spent 12 years covering stories around the world…
Read MoreThere are a number of content management system (CMS) solutions out there that make managing your website or business easier. We often get questions about which CMS is the best or which ones we recommend, so we decided to pull together a list of our favorites as well as some other popular options. This is…
Read MoreThere’s an incredibly dreadful hack hitting sites using the popular open source blog platform, WordPress, right now, even sites that are running the latest most up to date version (2.9.2). We know first hand as it has attacked our site and many others. Popular hosting service Media Temple confirmed the attack in a recent blog…
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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