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August 24th, 2011 by Damian Davila
While you may have known about the Google Street View Car, which has 15 lenses taking 360 degrees of photos and lasers capturing 3D data to determine distances within the Street View imagery, you may have not heard of Google Street View Trike. The Google Street View Trike, a 250-pound, 9-foot, human powered machine, enables Google to map sections where…
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August 9th, 2011 by Damian Davila
So many deals, so little time.
Is it possible to get too much of a great deal?
Apparently, yes. Given the success of group buying sites such as LivingSocial and Groupon, there has been an explosion of companies, both old and new, that are bombarding their email lists with daily deals.
The result is consumers that cannot resist missing such…
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August 4th, 2011 by Damian Davila
Facebook is often cited in the United States as a great example of how big ideas flourish in free societies. In Europe the frequently cited example is Spotify.
Spotify is considered such a success from entrepreneurship that British Prime Minister David Cameron used Spotify as an example to describe how big ideas flourish in free societies at the Davos summit…
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August 3rd, 2011 by Damian Davila
No matter how conservative you are in the expenses of starting up your own business, there is no cost where you truly “get-what-you-pay-for”: legal advice.
Young companies find it hard to scrimp on legal fees because of the current aggressive legal tone set by tech giants such as Apple. Seeing a great opportunity, lawyer Jay Mandal quit his merger and…
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August 2nd, 2011 by Damian Davila
If you spend too much time letting everybody what you are listening to via Twitter and Facebook, there is a new great service for you: Turntable.fm. Just released in June 2011, this service has become the talk of several professional musicians such as Talip Kwli and Diplo. Apparently even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been caught on the site listening…
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July 19th, 2011 by Damian Davila
Back in July 2011, I discussed about how Namesake differed from Quora in that the first startup did not focus only on questions and did not want to become a formal repository. Let’s take a deeper look at what Quora is about and the team behind it.
What is Quora?
According to its website, Quora is a continually improving collection…
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July 14th, 2011 by Damian Davila
The social media sponsorship pioneer, IZEA Holdings Inc. completed on 7/12/11 a merger transaction and the commencement of electronic stock trading under the symbol “IZEA” on the OTC Bulletin Board. Just a few months short from its 5 year anniversary, the Orlando, FL based company completed a major accomplishment as investors show an appetite for social media IPOs.
Earlier on…
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July 5th, 2011 by Damian Davila
With the saturation of location-based social networking services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, there is a strong interest in how to innovate this industry.
Enter Scoville.
Scoville was founded by Gerald Goldstein and Itamar Lesuisse, initially as a side project of Kukunu, a social travel planning service. This service shares the name the measurement of the spicy heat (or piquance)…
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July 4th, 2011 by Damian Davila
Based out of Los Angeles, California, Namesake is a social startup that has the mission is to build trust through conversation. According to the company founders, Brian Norgard and Daniel Gould, conversations are one of the most important tools we have as humans to learn, progress and connect. Prior to Namesake, Brian founded Newroo (acquired by FOX Interactive Media) and…
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June 30th, 2011 by Damian Davila
If you loved playing Monopoly as a kid and you are currently obsessed with keeping tabs with all of your social media presences, there is a perfect tool now available for you: Empire Avenue.
What is Empire Avenue?
According to Wikipedia, Empire Avenue is a stock market simulation social network game that allows users to buy and sell shares of…
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