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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… Read more
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… Read more
Broadcastr is a new social media space headed by New Yorker Scott Lindebaum that revolves around the recording, uploading, and sharing of geographically tagged audio files. Like Napster? Soundcloud? Myspace Music? No, not at all like them… Via a refreshing notion of ‘location-based audio stories’, users are encouraged to record, upload and share geographically pinned audio files with one another.… Read more
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.
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… Read more
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)… Read more
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… Read more
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going” is a popular English language proverb. What about when the going gets boring? British entrepreneurs Howe, Symington, and Jackman have the answer for that with their startup, Escape the City. According to its founders, Escape the City is a community for corporate professionals who want to do something different.… Read more
Given the recent performance from the LinkedIn IPO, there is now an ever-growing concern on whether the social media industry is not the newest market bubble (anybody remember the dot-com bust?). While Facebook is the leader in the ad-centric tech that focuses on pouring through volumes of data to learn about people relationships, turning these findings in key insights for… Read more
Too many photos, too little time. According to Royal Pingdom, in 2010 there were:
5 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (September 2010) 3,000+ – Photos uploaded per minute to Flickr 3+ billion – Photos uploaded per month to Facebook.A lot of these photos go into these virtual “shoeboxes” and never get to be shared around. To meet the… Read more
