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• Are you going to a Startup Weekend this weekend? Here I visit the headquarters

  03 August 2012 ( #startup, #weekend, #entrepreneur, #founder )

  You might have heard of "Startup Weekend." There are hundreds of them all around the world. For instance, here's one coming next year in Malta: http://malta.startupweekend.org/ Anyway, visit the team that runs the organization behind Startup Weekend and...

• Turn a wall into a 3D touchscreen

  08 August 2012 ( #kinect, #touch, #3d, #surface )

  http://www.ubi-interactive.com/ turns your wall into a huge iPad-like surface. This startup, which was part of Seattle's Techstars/Microsoft Kinect incubator class of 2012, turns a Microsoft Kinect and a projected image into a touch surface. Here CEO...

• Build cool animations with Microsoft Kinect and Freak'n Genius

  10 August 2012 ( #animation, #kinect, #movement, #video )

  http://www.freakngenius.com/ lets you build new kinds of live animations using a Microsoft Kinect. This is yet another company in the Techstars Kinect Startup Incubator and here you get a good look at this very cool technology. http://www.freakngenius.com/...

• Way over the freaky line (but very cool) is PlaceMe, journaling app

  11 April 2012 ( #location, #move, #iphone, #android, #journal, #app )

  Everyone I've shown this app to today (it came out last week) says "that's freaky." What does it do? It captures a ton of data on your phone as you move through the world. Right now it keeps a list of places. But here I sit down with founder Sam Liang...

• The ultimate grocery store shopping app gets better

  09 May 2012 ( #grocery, #shopping, #coupons, #money, #mobile, #iphone )

  GroceryiQ is the ultimate grocery store shopping list app and today it got better with audio input. Here we see the app, and learn more about the company that made it, coupons.com, which just got a $200 million investment. There's big business in coupons...

• aglocal_newme-1080p for Apple Devices (10 Mbps).m4v

  30 May 2012 ( #aglocal, #newme, #1080p, #for, #Apple, #Devices, #10, #Mbps )

• Kibits brings easier to figure out privacy and groups to mobile

  25 June 2012 ( #Mobile, #social, #sharing, #photos, #locations, #dropbox )

  Figuring out how to distribute photos to, say, just your bowling league buddies, is often tough on Google+ or Facebook. Here Kibits tries to give us much better groups on mobile devices and ways to distribute stuff from photos to Dropbox items. Get it...

• PCMag's Editor's Choice: a hard drive that backs itself up

  30 June 2012 ( #hard, #drive, #storage, #safe, #backup, #mobile )

  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406513,00.asp announced that Seagate had gotten blessed by PC Magazine for its Backup Plus hard drive. This is a drive that comes with cloud computing built in: it backs itself up. Hear how here.

• Vyclone brings killer multi-phone video to the world

  18 July 2012 ( #video, #production, #camera, #multi )

  Shoot video with multiple iPhones. Say at a concert. Or a wedding. And Vyclone joins it all together. Watch what it does here. Get it here: http://www.vyclone.com/ Shoot video with multiple iPhones. Say at a concert. Or a wedding. And Vyclone joins it...

• Latest look at Cisco Webex

  03 August 2012 ( #webex, #videoconference, #video, #collaboration )

  In an age of Skype and Google+ video hangouts, I wondered how Cisco was going to compete in the video conferencing world. Here's the answer, get it at http://www.webex.com/ The new MeetingSpaces lets you join up your content and video from your meetings...

• aglocal_newme-1080p for Apple Devices (10 Mbps).m4v

  30 May 2012 ( #aglocal, #newme, #1080p, #for, #Apple, #Devices, #10, #Mbps )

• Spotsetter uses big data to help you see things from your social graphs

  10 May 2012 ( #social, #search, #network, #big, #data, #angelpad )

  It pulls in Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and other social databases. For me alone that means 60 million objects. Using these social graphs for search means you can see new things that other search engines don't show you (not even the new Bing). Interesting...

• Andy Rachleff tells entrepreneurs "go public or go home"

  05 April 2012 ( #ipo, #enterpreneur, #company, #building, #capital, #trends )

  OK, he didn't quite say that, but here Benchmark (famous Silicon Valley VC firm) co-founder and current CEO of Wealthfront, tells tech company executives why they should consider going public and talks about why that hasn't happened so much in the past...

• Meet your friends' friends on LikeBright

  15 August 2012 ( #dating, #people, #meeting )

  http://www.likebright.com/welcome is a new kind of dating company. One that uses Facebook's friend system to help you meet people. I take a look at this Seattle-based company here. http://www.likebright.com/welcome is a new kind of dating company. One...

• If Evernote and Pinterest had a baby: Springpad

  11 April 2012 ( #Springpad, #notebook, #information, #catalog, #colection. )

  The smart notebook arrives with Springpad. Here's my first look. More on its blog at http://springpad.com/blog/2012/04/the-new-springpad/

• Is Clipboard easy enough curation? Or will Pinterest win over more power?

  31 May 2012 ( #curation, #bookmark, #save, #web, #clipboard )

  Here Gary Flake, founder of Clipboard, shows me the newest version, released today. Try it at http://www.clipboard.com What does it do? Let's you save and curate anything on any web page and either keep it for yourself or share it with friends and family....

• Mobile app developers: design and deploy A/B tests with Swrve

  11 June 2012 ( #mobile, #app, #development, #testing, #iteration )

  http://swrve.com/ Ever needed to do an A/B test of your mobile app? You can use Swrve to figure out how to optimize your app for different users, all without getting engineering involved. Here's how.

• Hire better people with Unrabble

  11 June 2012 ( #HR, #hiring, #talent, #resumes, #profiles )

  http://www.unrabble.com/ Drowning in resumes? This is a much better system for hiring people. Let's take a look.

• A killer productivity tool for Windows users: ActiveWords

  28 July 2012 ( #windows, #utility, #productivity )

  Have you used ActiveWords lately? Here CEO Buzz Bruggeman gives me an in-depth look. This utility is a must-have if you are on Microsoft Windows. Get it at http://activewords.com Have you used ActiveWords lately? Here CEO Buzz Bruggeman gives me an in-depth...

• Enterprises: Cliqr Technologies helps you move your apps to the cloud

  24 July 2012 ( #enterprise, #cloud, #app )

  If you a CTO in an Enterprise, Cliqr Technologies helps you move your apps to the cloud. Here's how. Learn more at: http://cliqrtech.com/ If you a CTO in an Enterprise, Cliqr Technologies helps you move your apps to the cloud. Here's how. Learn more...

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  11 August 2012

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  12 August 2012

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  20 August 2012

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  01 September 2012

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• The state of the cloud, from exec at VMware

  12 April 2012 ( #cloud, #vmware, #computing, #datacenter, #technology )

  VMware is the most used virtual machine producer out there. What's that? Virtual machines run on servers underneath all sorts of useful things and, so, it's always interesting catching up with Tod Nielsen, co-president of VMware's application platform. Here...