In the last week, Seesmic released three new apps to much Internet fanfare: a native app for Windows (Seesmic for Windows), an app for Blackberry (Seesmic for Blackberry), and Seesmic for Android (guess the OS). As a self-proclaimed evangelist for the company’s software, I leaped at the opportunity to use the new Twitter tools. Unfortunately,…continue reading.
Startups
During LA Tech Week we caught up with Kellee Santiago Co-Founder of thatgamecompany creators of Flower, FlOw, and now Cloud. Flower and FlOw have both been top selling games on the Playstation Network thanks to the explosion of downloadable content within the video game industry. Kellee gives us an inside view of her company and…continue reading.
Getting props when props are due can be a difficult task in the realm of social media. In the world of real time that we all currently live in being able to get good solid timely feedback is almost crucial. No body really cares what someone said about your company two years ago or even…continue reading.
If you have more then one twitter account and want to see some how much ROI you are getting from them, HootSuite might be something you may want to take a look at. There are tons of applications that can help you monitor you twitter account but HootSuite is focused mainly on the power-user and…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.
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.
TechZulu caught up with Martin Källström, CEO of Swedish start-up Twingly at BlogWorld expo. Twingly is allowing users to cut out the noise of online search and real-time web so that people spend time on only the specific news and content that matters to them. Having the ultimate filter would be awesome but how accurate…continue reading.
Did you know that, on average, food travels a whopping 1500 miles from the farm to your plate? Grocers and restaurants currently buy less than two percent of their produce and meat from local farmers, but DEMO startup Local Dirt is looking to boost local consumption. Local Dirt has essentially created an online marketplace making…continue reading.
