Planning and booking vacations in the Internet age is vastly different. In-person travel agents are on the way out but online travel agency sites, like Orbitz or Travelocity, are less personal and primarily focused on securing the sale. Mr. Arlo is a new-age online travel discovery and booking site that focuses on customer experience. Chuck…
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While telemedicine – consulting with doctors over the phone – is gaining some popularity lately, another innovation is taking us back to the roots of medical care. Atlanta startup Medicast wants to bring doctors back into your home. Instead of sending a relative to fetch the doctor, as they did in centuries past, you can…
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Way back at the beginning of the month, Zamp was a showcased startup at our SXSW #StartupLife Celebration. Founder Sam Zebarjadi was gracious enough to sit down for an interview, which became part of our SXSW video series (you can watch the interview here). He talked about his really cool social travel service that connects…
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Marshall Seese’s reasons for starting social gaming company Mowgli Games were clear. “Simply put, it pissed me off that money like that could be made from a game where people spent all their time making something fake,” he said, in reference to Zynga’s wildly popular Farmville. “So from there I decided that social gaming would…
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I love love love espresso – well, cappuccino to be honest – and though I don’t know how to code at all, I am super excited about the ZP Espresso Machine, a product design project currently on Kickstarter that was developed by engineers Gleb Polyakov and Igor Zamlinsky. While I dig the fact that their…
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I recently wrote about three sites that make trip planning fun. But not every trip is planned; sometimes you get stranded, sometimes you decide to take an impromptu trip, and finding a hotel can be hard even when you have time to plan. RoomSailor , an iPhone app, uses geolocation to search for hotels nearby. You can…
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Let’s face it, everyone has fantasized about being famous at least once. Now you’ve got your chance to get recognized while playing an online game with 15Seconds.me, formerly known as FamousCam. 15Seconds is a real-time digital soapbox for anyone with a webcam and a microphone. As such, it is a very interesting and unique way to…
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