Author Archive: Efren Toscano

L.A. Tech Week held at the Business Technology Center in Altadena is one of the gems of tech events held in Southern California in my opinion.  Why a gem?  Well for one its held in Altadena and two it’s a fresh change of scenery.  TechZulu has been attending the L.A. Tech Week event going on…continue reading.

Guest post by Caroline Graeff of Imagine Marketing Agency This is a highlight video from the event, to view the full discussion click here: “Where’s Waldo”, a social media discussion featuring great panelists, experts in the social media craze: – Jonathan Rosen, Lucky NY – Cameron Olthius, 5ones.com – Scott Tilton, loopd.com – Emily Goligoski,…continue reading.

Aggregation seems to be the magic word for 2009.  Here is one company I believe is doing best.  News aggregating company Thoora gives you all your media news, social and traditional, in one place.  Thoora has recently come out of private beta offering their free service of breaking news that is based off of millions…continue reading.

Looking for a place to get your feet wet on blogging and social media?  The Bloggers Bulletin might be the place for you.  Focused specifically on the business community they have over 45 contributors to help get you started with facebook, Twitter, to even creating a WordPress blog for your company.  They have only been…continue reading.

We caught up with Jeffrey Hayzlett at the 140 character conference held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.  The way of photo sharing today is “Allowing people to be able to connect in different ways” says Jeffrey.  Being able to snap a picture these days has been easier then ever.  Even folks that do…continue reading.

Hand-picked blogs representing tremendous different areas of content.  With over 3 million blogs articles from over 500 categories.  Also, Finding quality blogs can be a bit tricky when there are about 60 million online blogs to look through.  In comes Regator.  Regator looks for and chooses the best blogs and organizes them for you and…continue reading.

It’s always great to catch-up with start-ups we have interviewed in the past.  Seeing their progress and how much they have changed in one year is pretty amazing.  So it was a pleasure to catch-up with BuzzVoice (formally Pimp My News) and to see where they have taken their product.  The name isn’t the only…continue reading.

The booth for San Diego based Tweetphoto was a happening spot at the 140 Characters Conference. Joined by 140conf speaker and Tweetphoto Co-founder, Rodney Rumford (@rumford) and CEO, Dan Caulfield; the Tweetphoto team was front and center, next to the Kodak booth, to spread the word about their engaging Twitter-centric photo sharing service. They even had a few moments to chat it up with TechZulu’s Amanda Coolong:

Envolve is a very early stage start-up company based out of San Francisco with a goal to enable meaningful conversation all over the web in real-time.  They do this by providing websites with a Facebook style chat system that is enabled with a small line of javascript embedded into the web-page.  This gives a website…continue reading.

There are tons of healthcare products being developed for your mobile devices but MedApps feels that they are being developed for people that don’t need them.  What they have created is a dedicated device that requires no interaction on the patients’ part making it totally automatic.  Which I agree with, how man 70 or 80…continue reading.