Busy taking classes and studying all night? Have an idea for a startup but afraid you don’t have time to work on it? Well tuff, these fine young folks currently attending the University of Southern California surely didn’t think so. Not only did they start a company but they have taken as far as attending and pitching at one of the most prestigious conferences known in the startup world, DEMO.

That’s right. We all work hard, now it’s time to play hard. TechZulu is turning three and we couldn’t think of a better place to celebrate than the exclusive nightclub, Drai’s Hollywood. We’ve partnered with New Media Vault (who subsequently will be celebrating their two year anniversary) to bring you a night of red carpet chic, rooftop cabanas, and a DJ who’s flying in from New York.

Congratulations to our good friend, best-selling author and social media thought leader Brian Solis! He will be heading up as Editorial Director and Host for 2011 and future Pivot Conference’s. Solis will take over the reins from Chris Shipley, who will be focusing on her position as chairman and CEO of Guidewire Group.

Comparison shopping is great when you are out and about looking for the best deals on a product or even looking for reviews. However, I catch myself wondering about the reviews on occasion. “This is an awesome product, and is a must buy!”, says dbz09.

For those who may not know of DEMO, it is a jammed packed twice a year 2 day conference filled with 6 minute on stage pitches, a demo pit, networking events, and not to mention one of the longest running emerging tech conferences

Teaching credentials? What is that? And who needs them with when you have Supercool School.  Supercool school is a site that allows anyone to create an online learning environment that they can charge students to take a course.  Founder Steli Efti stated that he wants to create the Ning of Education, giving the ability to…continue reading.

Filters are a thing of the past when you have “Digital Intuition”.  No longer will you need to check mark those boxes on what you have interest in.  With my6sense they simply want you to plug in your streams and let it do the work for you.  my6sense intelligently filters your content from Twitter, Facebook…continue reading.

Gwabbit did it again and took home yet another DEMOgod award with their new product the Gwab-o-Sphere.  The Gwab-o-sphere is an “automatic contact cloud” according to CEO Todd Miller.  What the service does is synchronizes the contacts you have across your phones and social networks and puts them in an easy to use contact database.…continue reading.

Corporate sustainability is now being seen as a moral imparative. GreenNurture is the maker of an application that helps employees contribute to the sustainability for their employers.  Based on the popularity of rewards systems and social networking of late, GreenNurture gives people incentives to help save energy and precious resources. GreenNurture has the ability for…continue reading.

During DEMOspring 2010 we caught up with Brian Dougherty founder of AirSet.  AirSet gives you your own Personal Cloud Computer and the ability to add groups of Cloud Computers to your Cloud Network. Each cloud computer has an expandable hard disk, a rich suite of web applications, and acts as a web server publishing content. Signing…continue reading.