Robert Scoble

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://haikudeck.com/ is a great way to create simple presentations for iPads. Very nice. You've gotta see this Seattle-based company. http://haikudeck.com/

To those of you going to the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco might find themselves a bit, say, tipsy and unable to drive home. So, you'll need to find a hotel room. How do you do that? Easy, use http://www.hoteltonight.com/ Here you learn more about it.

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.c-labs.com/ C-Labs helps you distribute business intelligence from local sensors, services and devices to where it is needed by decision makers, but that's not what excited me about meeting Chris M. Muench, CEO. Here we talk about Windows 8 and why it's so nice for developers.

The competition for news apps heats up as Pulse moves to HTML 5. What does this do? First it brings Pulse to desktop and laptops for the first time (it started out as an iPad app). It also demonstrates how Windows 8 will be cool for developers. Get it now at https://www.pulse.me/

Here's another in my series of Techstars Kinect Startup Incubator visits. This one, Nconnex, http://nconnex.com/wp/ , lets you scan in furniture and see what it will look like in your room. All from an iPad. See how this all works in this video.

http://manctl.com/ shows me how its low-priced 3D scanner, named "Skanect" works. What does it do? While the Kinect is moved around, it captures new views of an object or a room and automatically computes a metric 3D model, in real-time. Skanect can also detects planes, such as floors and walls, and perform automatic ground alignment. Skanect's output can be imported into popular 3d software such as Meshlab or Blender for further examination, measurement and refining.

http://www.styku.com/business/ The future is here. You can use a Microsoft Kinect scanner and Styku to scan your body and get your size. It's very accurate and it will be showing up in some stores soon. This company is part of the Techstars' Kinect incubator in Seattle, which I recently visited to see the latest companies coming out.

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 Anup Chathoth shows it off to me.