Google rolled out “Search, Plus Your World” on Tuesday, 01/11/2012 for all English-language searches. This new feature is powered by Google’s social network of ~60 million Google+ users. The search engine hopes to return more relevant and personalized results through its learnings of users’ behaviors and interests. What this means: Personal Results currently only show [...]
Here are some thoughts on when it makes sense for a company to build a mobile app vs. mobile website: When it makes sense to build a Mobile Website: – Good for email newsletter embed links. You can embed links that direct to your mobile website in emails and newsletters. This way when the user [...]
More and more companies are creating custom native apps, but does this mean every company should jump on the app bandwagon? And even after you decide to create apps, what platforms should it be on: iOS, Android, Windows, or Blackberry? No doubt that statistics show trends of downloading apps are on the super-rise: there were [...]
According to Amazon’s Press Release on December 15, 2011, the company has sold more than 1 million Kindle Fire tablets per week in the past 3 weeks. Amazon states the Kindle Fire is the best-selling and most wishlist-added product on Amazon.com since the tablet was available for purchase late October. The top 3 products on [...]
Image from: http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/03/welcome-to-google-usa.html Last February Google announced their Fiber project, an experimental Broadband TV+Internet+Telephone Network in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Their “experiment” consisted of offering Triple Play packages to users at home. The service is expected to be functional in early 2012. Naturally, the question to be answered is: What will Google [...]
This Tuesday the TechCrunch NYC meetup officially happened at Bar 13 in lower Manhattan. Setup of the place was: photo booth machine and karaoke on the 1st floor, full bar, DJ, disco ball and “VIP” tables on the 2nd floor, then there’s the roof top. Total 3 levels of mingling, 1,500+ RSVPs, packed on every [...]
NY Tech Day 2012: Startups that Stole the Show
Last Thursday, April 19th was NY Tech Day. Over 3,500 people registered to attend and 160+ startups exhibited alongside sponsors at the Lexington Armory in New York. The first part of the event had startups showcasing their products to the media, VCs, and tech industry enthusiasts. The latter part of the event was the Awards [...]
Private Event: AT&T & Nokia Limo Party + 230 Fifth Rooftop After Party
[Photos: Alexis, AT&T; Kathy Garfield, 1000heads; Heidi, Head of Blogger Community Outreach, Techlicious; Billy Sorrells, MTV; Johan, MobilityMinded; Chaim Haas, SVP, Kaplow PR; Eddy, dancinghotdogs.com] Yesterday I was invited by @SirKneeland to a dazzling private event for AT&T + Nokia to showcase their Best Phone of CES 2012, the Lumia 900 and for media personalities [...]
WIMLink Women Leadership and Negotiation Event
Last Thursday WimLink hosted an Advancing Women: Leadership Confidence and Negotiation event at the IAB Flatiron office in New York. Founder and Organizer Tania Yuki @taniayuki invited accomplished women in media and technology to sit on the panel. Panelists include: Sharon Feder, COO of Mashable; Laurel Touby, Founder of Mediabistro, startup Investor/Advisor and also host [...]
Developing for Nokia with Windows 7 Phone – Mobile Monday Event
Last night, Mobile Monday NY @MobileMondayNY held their March event at the Canal Room in Soho, NYC. With Nokia as the sponsor, developers showed off their Windows 7 apps and Nokia raffled a few winner of CES Best Smartphone Lumia 900 phones. Roughly 150 attendees in the mobile industry mingled by the open bar and [...]
News.me: Your Curated News Social Network
Many companies are now trying to solve the problem of users experiencing content overload whether from popular social networking sites, the media, or your friends’ constant check-ins and tweets by curating content, qualifying and repackaging them in an easier digestible format. One such company’s product I recently checked out is News.me. It grooms through your [...]
The Social Radio is Like Your Twitter Mix Tape
I got hooked on audiobooks while working at Audible, aside from providing a different way to ingest content, they make train rides and falling asleep easier. Recently, I discovered The Social Radio, it reads your Twitter feeds out loud along with music in the background, like a Twitter mix tape. The “stations” on your Social [...]
http://www.sonar.me/ Product Description: While you’re out in a public space, Sonar attempts to answer the question “Who do I know here?” Once a user checks-in, Sonar displays a list of all users that have checked-in to the same venue as well as any shared connections you have with them via Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and LinkedIn. [...]
http://uplanme.com/ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/uplanme Product Description: My first encounter with UPlanMe was through UrbanDaddy‘s newsletter New York edition, calling it “The Pandora of Calendars”. It describes: “Introducing UPlanMe, a self-aware smart calendar that’ll constantly evolve to meet your extracurricular scheduling needs, available now in private beta.” UPlanMe is a service that provides events suggestions based on a [...]
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