Robert Scoble

http://grid.binarythumb.com/ Josh Leong worked at Microsoft. Was frustrated by his inability to get Microsoft to innovate. So he left and started a company to work on a new kind of spreadsheet. Go read the Techcrunch introduction of this company first: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/08/grid-launch/ Then come back and watch this interview, which gives you a deep look at what Josh is thinking.

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 learn more at http://startupweekend.org/

http://applover.me/ is a new service that helps developers test and get info about making their apps work on Android's many different devices. If you are a mobile developer, will you use this?

Here are two of the cool companies that are coming from the startup incubator in Europe, Startup Sauna. They are here in San Francisco to launch tonight and I got a little taste this week of two of the companies. More on the companies here: http://startupsauna.com/startups/

http://blackbox.vc/ Put a dozen entrepreneurs in a Atherton, CA mansion and you get a real pressure cooker that's getting tons of interest. The day I was there Tim Draper, famous VC, dropped by, and here we drop in on an evening party they were holding to raise money for Hacker Dojo. In this hour you'll meet the founder of the mansion, plus most of the companies that were there in April 2012.