London-based Zealous is an online creativity network aimed at the film, art, music, photography, and performance markets, founded in April 2011 by Guy Armitage. The live alpha attracted over 2,200 users, and today the company officially launched to help creatives from any artistic discipline showcase their work, find one another to collaborate, and gather an…
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Am I happy? It’s a question that surely lingers interminably on our minds. However, the bigger question is: why am I happy? That’s where the Happiness app comes in to help. Happiness is an iOS journal app with the primary goal of helping the user become more self-aware and thus “make better decisions [in life].”…
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Blippar – the image recognition, augmented reality mobile app – is giving a whole new meaning to the term beer goggles. Budweiser Racing recently announced a partnership with London-based Blippar in conjunction with their US launch. During the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, Blippar users can enjoy exclusive behind the scenes content from Budweiser Racing and…
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What does every startup want? Growth and investment. Achieve both and success can be yours. I met with London-based Antavo, the competition-focused marketing platform, to listen to how they immediately gained over 60,000 active monthly users as well as investment from one of the biggest European tech investors, Seedcamp. 1. Preparation. Technology and social media change at…
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You’ve built out a series of highly mood-dependent and situational music playlists. You have one for the gym, and you have separate ones for when you’re happy, sad, angry, drunk, and reflective. You’ve got one for when it’s raining. There’s another for Spring Break 2003 (“two trailer park girls go ’round the outside, ’round the…”). But…
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This is a little macabre, but it is still an interesting statistic: 3.24% of all Facebook profiles belong to the deceased. Because death, like taxes, is inevitable, this number is naturally increasing with each passing moment. London-based DeadSocial has created a software platform around this basic fact of life. They let you create a range…
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As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, the number of accelerators and incubators is rapidly growing all around the globe. TechStars not only runs amazing programs themselves, but they also have a network of other independent accelerators in the US and abroad to whom they provide consulting and ongoing assistance. Springboard, which is…
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London-based product development startup BERG introduced the Little Printer today, a new product that takes your digital news, puzzles and updates from friends and prints them out with a smile. It is definitely a step in the retro direction – the device prints those mini updates on what resembles cash register receipt paper. Little Printer…
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Two of the biggest challenges facing small businesses are cash flow visibility and access to financing. Bilbus is a company using technology to solve these problems by bringing businesses and lenders together online. Using Bilbus, small business owners can track and view the status of their invoices as well as plan and forecast their collections and…
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Yes, you read that headline correctly. UK-based Orange has created technology that enables your phone to be charged by sound– all within the practical, tidy package of a t-shirt. This 2011 prototype follows Orange’s successful heritage in producing eco charging devices such as last year’s Power Wellies, which powered users’ phones as they walked around….
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Today is the day – popular European music service Spotify is now available in the US. While their mantra is “Any track, any time, anywhere. And it’s free,” they’ve done a nice job of creating demand by requiring you to sign up and wait for an invitation. What, you don’t want to wait for an…
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Looking for a party, or want to start one? London-based startup Eeve is a new location-based social network that allows you to see what events are happening around you along with who is there. If there’s nothing happening – or everything that is happening looks totally lame – you can post your own event. Once…
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When most people think of public transportation, they think of the typical options that usually come to mind: train, bus or taxi. The Zipcar service kicked off a brand new way for people to get around in urban environments, and more services like it are popping up all the time. Phil Pauley’s UK-based Wi-Fly is…
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Last month we shared a list of the top ranked startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. Through most accelerators and incubators, startup teams receive mentoring, guidance and a small amount of funding in return for a small stake in the company. With all the startup accelerator programs popping up across the globe,…
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With eReaders taking over the book world and rendering hard copies of books obsolete, e-book publishers have been popping up left and right. Seth Godin launched The Domino Project last year, around the time we covered BookBrewer, a service that lets people turn blogs and documents into e-books within a few minutes. A Google search…
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We are living in the connected era as people, cars, homes and even the refrigerator is getting connected to the Web in some way. So it was only a matter of time until we saw this trend take to the gym. Technogym is a company that has created Visioweb to offer the first treadmill connected…
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