It's only 12 days until the 2nd annual Streamy Awards and you can bet TechZulu will be there covering the collaboration between the International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV), Los Angeles startup Tubefilter, NewTeeVee. The Streamys is a live-streamed, multi-camera annual awards show held in Los Angeles where web series' and their creators win gold statues, and more importantly, the applause and accolades of their peers. Last year, The Streamys received criticism for having too few categor…

Shooting a quick video is awesome but what if it is a bit too shaky and what if your subject can't stick around for more then a minute.  Well now there is a solution! In comes Fotobabble, a quick and easy site and iPhone app that allows you to snap a picture and record an audio track over it.  Fotobabble makes it really easy to share the creation on Facebook, Twitter or Text. Just this past weekend I was going to snap a photo and Tweetphoto it, but then I remembered that I had Fotobabble and wa…

Aaron Strout and CoachDeb take the time out to give you all a few tips on how to be an influencer.  Whether you blog, vlog, podcast, or take photographs, there is always an area you can find yourself to be of influence to others.  Your content may not only be the reason you are considered to be an influencer. Making simple introductions to other people can make you a person of value or influence as well.  Taking the time out to give an introduction may seem like something small and simple to yo…

Approximately $9,000 was raised for charity by Los Angeles and Orange County tweeps last night at The Roxy Theater as part of a global event known as Twestival, said Paula Gould, a PR rep for the event. The event, which took place in 175 cities, raised more than $300,000 for charity Concern Worldwide, known among tweeps for its Twitter fundraising efforts. According to its web site, Concern helps those with the most extreme cases of poverty. Last year, Twestival Global raised about $250,000 fo…

Sprint announced today that they are bringing 4G to seven new WiMAX markets one of which is LA.  SXSW in Austin, TX has just ended and almost our entire LA Tech community attended, and I hope most had a chance to experience 4G WiMAX availability.  Going from 3G's 600 kbps to 4G's 6 Mbps is absolutely eye opening on what is going to be possible within the Mobile space.  So I say Let AT&T and Verizon fight about their map coverage I want my uncapped 4G service! Here is the press release with …

Do your part on making the world a better place by attending the Twestvial here in Los Angeles.  For this Twestival 175 cities from around the world will come together this Thursday March 25th to raise money for Concern Worldwide. This Charity is an international humanitarian organization that is dedicated to transforming the lives of the World's most marginalized children through access to education. Everyone here in the LA Tech community has joined forces to help put this event together and a…

DEMO has officially started today and we will be there starting tomorrow.  For DEMOfall 2009 we pretty much hit it on the nose for the DEMOgod award winners, let's see if we can nail it again this year.  The DEMO conference announced the lineup of 65 companies that will share their products and value propositions to the technology community at DEMO Spring 2010 on March 21-23 in Palm Desert, California. DEMO Spring has a few theme's going on.  They will feature new products and prototypes from i…

Guest post by Graeme Thickins of Tech Surf Blog At a recent Club Entrepreneur lunch in downtown Minneapolis, I had the opportunity to meet one of the cofounders of a unique startup. The name of that cofounder was Ion Skillrud, shown at right in the photo.  The name of his startup is Socurio, which is a new kind of "creative marketplace and community for fine art."  I learned his cofounder, Sasha Koehn (left in the photo), was based in LA.  I thought there must be an interesting story here, and …

Last week I caught up with Albert Ko founder of DealPerk which is a new web site that launched for the Orange County community.  Similar to Groupon, Dealperk gives you a Perk (Deal) a day at a very inexpensive price.  Take today's deal for instance.  Get 5 ice cream bars from BoardWalk Ice Cream Co. at Irvine Spectrum for only $10.  Normally it would cost you $20, however there is a catch to get this deal.  A certain number of people must sign-up and buy the perk for the deal to be available.  F…