When Marxent Labs was commissioned to make an augmented reality app everyone would talk about, models in their underwear was an obvious choice. Their client was Moosejaw, an outdoor equipment store with a catalogue in need of some spicing up. So Marxent created an x-ray app that, when held over the magazine, lets you see…
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Yesterday afternoon, I spent an obscene amount of time and money buying tickets to a Coldplay concert in July here in DC. Being forced to use TicketMaster is bad enough, but they made it worst with their horrible CAPTCHA system that depends on text so distorted I wasn’t even sure if they were letters in…
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It is my first time in Detroit, and I am riding shotgun down the main drag that is Woodward Avenue with a long-enough-to-keep-safe lens equipped camera in hand. Glide down one street akin to Park Avenue, make a sharp right turn and find yourself smack in the middle of an episode of TheWire. I was…
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Lansing, Michigan native and NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson announced yesterday that he is joining Detroit Venture Partners (DVP) as a general partner. He will also be investing millions of dollars into the fund itself. If you’re not familiar with them, DVP is a Detroit-based venture capital firm that invests in seed and early-stage…
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Calling all foodies who love to eat out! You will want to check out brand new startup FoodCircles, which demo’d at Funded by Night in Detroit last week. Once the service officially launches, they will allow you to create a deal for your meal in minutes. Groups of friends can “blast” their eating intentions out…
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Location-based services have been popping up all over the place lately. One of the newest iterations on the theme is Bite to Meet, a location-based service that connects you to others over a meal, allowing you to expand your professional network while enjoying great food. While it almost sounds like a blind dating service for…
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If you’re tired of searching all over the internet for interesting events to attend, then you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a one stop shop to save you the hassle. Wawadoo is a new recommendation engine that helps you to connect with the events and activities that you’re trying to find. People spend way too…
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There’s a new, real-life mobile game of Clue that turns you into the detective and lets you solve mysteries based on the places you go. This fun and intriguing new game is called Gumshoe. Gumshoe is a gaming platform that’s powered by the content you’re already pushing to the web. It transforms a “check-in” into…
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Unless you’re a local who is in the loop, keeping up with your favorite high school sports teams is not always an easy thing to do. High school athletics obviously do not receive the type of recognition that college and professional sports do, so finding information on certain players and sports can be kind of hard. With the Varsity…
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Tired of switching back and forth through all of your instant messaging applications just to stay connected? There is now a way to consolidate all your chat networks into one with Thru.im. Thru.im has created a platform that lets anyone build instant messaging applications that use their Message Routing Engine API. Their API translates messages…
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If I were single, I would definitely check out Pick Mi Date, a new dating website that is part game show and part match-making tool. Available only in Detroit right now, you can register to vote or date. Eligible singles are posted online, and the public can vote on who should hook up (their next…
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With research tools available literally at our fingertips, it still amazes me that people lie on their resumes, even executives like the CEO of Bausch & Lomb and the CFO of Veritas software. Talk about losing your credibility in an instant! Because individuals and organizations need quick and easy access to verified career credentials, Credentialock…
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For the past 2 months, I have been basically ignoring my personal Facebook account. It’s a major time-suck, and even though I occasionally miss hearing from my friends on a daily basis, I am surviving just fine without regular check-ins. In fact, it’s rather liberating. Some people, unfortunately, can’t stay away from Facebook, YouTube, online…
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Is it a person? How about a place? Actually, it’s a new online game you can play with anyone, anywhere. 20 Questions is a new take on the world’s favorite guessing game. You may remember playing it in the car on family road trips, but now 20 Questions has been introduced into the world of…
Read MoreWhether or not you realize it, your organization stores data in the cloud on platforms such as Salesforce, Google apps, social media, and elsewhere. For large organizations, retaining and aggregating all of that data, spread out in multiple places, is not easy. Zeeland, MI-based Downstream has created an app that combines a private infrastructure with…
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Pop quiz: In how many places do you store your business contacts? If you’re fairly typical, probably in 1 or 2 email address books, your smart phone, on social networks, and in a CRM, all of which need to be manually updated, a time-consuming task that is only slightly more exciting than filing that stack…
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