When you think about it, many websites are just glorified books – with some fancy design and a few videos thrown in. There’s the table of contents, the navigation menu on the top or left or bottom with a whole long list of stuff. There are multiple pages that follow – but some readers don’t…
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Running late to your kid’s high school football game? It’s okay, your spouse got there early to secure a pair of seats at the 50-yard-line. And if you downloaded ScoreStream, you can keep up with the game play-by-play, so you barely miss a beat. Tech Cocktail caught up with Derrick Oien, CEO of the San…
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When we last covered San Diego startup Nulu, the application was pre-launch, and the team was readying to revolutionize foreign language instruction. Today, Nulu has been incorporated into the curriculum of well over one hundred universities, closed a seed funding round, got accepted into the EvoNexus incubator, is fresh from winning the Hottest Showcasing Startup title…
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Weather.com may have its pollen forecast, but what about your personal allergy forecast? Your good days – and bad days – might not be the same as everyone else’s. The Good Days app, in beta for iPhone and Android, tracks not just pollen but ozone, humidity, pollution, and your location (and not just the city,…
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It’s easy to take our sight for granted; in fact, many people probably take their expensive, designer sunglasses for granted. But the team at SOLO Eyewear doesn’t. When they realized how many people suffered from preventable blindness, they set out to help. Their solution was to create a line of sunglasses selling from $74 to…
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If companies want to donate to charity, their traditional options are limited: post a form on their website for donation requests, or maybe visit a local nonprofit. But a few services online are starting to connect them to nonprofits directly. Auction Frogs connects businesses with nonprofits who need donations for their auctions. BrandingForGood takes donations…
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Pokki, the app store for your Windows computer, today launched publicly, updated its interface, and announced over 1 million monthly active users. Made by San Diego startup SweetLabs, Pokki takes the app experience enjoyed on smartphones and brings it to your PC. You can download desktop versions of apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and…
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Last December, Tech Cocktail mixed together a couple hundred San Diego-native tech enthusiasts with a dozen local startups at Analog Bar. Well SD, we’re coming back. As part of this week’s Tech Cocktail San Diego Mixer < register here > we’ll be showcasing nine new San Diego-area startups. But before the event begins, we want to know what you think - which showcasing…
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Checking Instagram can be is a huge time suck for most of us. But a desktop app is making it even easier for you to stay tuned to your fellow mobile photographers’ activity – with a few new features. Instagrille is a desktop application that syncs activity from your Instagram account to your PC. The visually pleasing, browser-sized…
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Event discovery is available for the taking. You can use Foursquare to see who is at a given venue in your vicinity, but it does little in terms of finding new events. RAVN made the where its central focus, but due to a lack of traction, closed up shop earlier this week. Content hubs such as Thrillist and Sosh.com make the what as their starting…
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Imagine turning on the pipes and seeing no water flow. Instead, you spend hours waiting for it to be turned on so your family doesn’t go thirsty. This is normal for millions of households in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, reports NextDrop. The San Diego startup sends text messages to locals in Hubli, India, alerting…
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Yesterday, Salesforce announced the launch of Desk.com, a new social help desk product built by the Assistly team, which was acquired last September. We have been following the progress of San Francisco-based Assistly, syncing up every few months with founder and CEO Alex Bard since their creation and participation as a San Diego startup showcase…
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Mike O’Brien is one of those serial entrepreneurs that come up with new ideas – and execute them – constantly. He is currently CEO of San Diego-based Climber.com, a proactive career management tool that gives job seekers access to hundreds of thousands of recruiters. He was a co-founder and served as CEO of financialaid.com, which…
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Scenario #1: It’s two days before Christmas. You’re broke. You still need to get last-minute gifts for your colleague, racquetball partner, and cousin. What…Do…You…Do? Answer: Antengo it. Question: What is Antengo? Antengo is the mobile solution for local marketplaces; think Craigslist meets Twitter. Antengo brings free classifieds to smartphones (Craigslist) in 140 characters or less (Twitter)…
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Bye bye, boredom: new mobile app saambaa is ensuring that making plans with friends is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Say you want to grab a few drinks at that new bar downtown tonight. With saambaa, you can set the destination and time, then send the plan a plan to a group of friends…
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We all know that content is “king.” Thoughtful, meaningful, original online content garners high SEO results – true back in the early days of search engines, and still true now. However, if content is king, then smart and thoughtful user-generated content about your company is, well, pure gold. And like gold, you have to sift…
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