If you want to make a plant glow in the dark, you have to manipulate its DNA. That’s exactly what a couple of PhDs from California have been doing for the past eight months. Omri Amirav-Drory and Kyle Taylor started with genes from A. fischeri, a bacteria can glow. They’ve added promoters, little bits of…
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Lief Storer used to commute the 10 miles from Berkeley to Point Richmond on a bike wearing headphones – not exactly the smartest of life choices. But he couldn’t help it. He loved the music. To avoid getting run over, Storer was inspired to build a portable smartphone-connected speaker. He had seen people strapping Jamboxes…
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Last night at Tech Cocktail’s San Francisco Mixer, The Mad Video was announced as the Hottest Showcasing Startup reader’s choice. The SF-based startup offers a platform to make online videos more interactive and giver users the ability to better monetize their content through tagging products, places or people that appear in the video. The company is…
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Last week was SFMade Week, a seven-day celebration of San Francisco’s local manufacturing sector. Attendees toured factories, donated money, and learned about the retailers who sell locally made products. Another champion of the maker community is Localvore, a marketplace for locally made, artisan manufactured goods from San Francisco and Northern California. From cinnamon oat soap…
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Would you buy your employees a latte every month? If so, you can afford AnyPerk. That’s probably why over 2,500 companies – including Pinterest, Hulu, Pandora, and Quora – have signed their team up for perks in fitness, entertainment, travel, and technology. If you’re wondering about the quality of the perks, look no further than…
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Locating quality startups in San Francisco is like spotting bees in a hive. Doesn’t take long. Finding an event that combines more than a dozen of these startups, a few hundred of your best techno-friends, and cocktails- requires a bit more good fortune. Well you’re in luck- because on May 22nd Tech Cocktail is bringing the…
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In 2010, one-third of all American workers were independent – that means freelance, self-employed, or part-time, explains the Freelancers Union. And many of the fastest-growing online freelance jobs are around technology, from email marketing (at #5) to Android (#6), WordPress (#8), and HTML (#9). The growth of freelancing is partly thanks to the uncertain economy, which…
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The following post is sponsored by LogiAnalytics, a business intelligence company, named a challenger in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. Test. Measure. Refine. Achieving desired results requires meaningful data. You wouldn’t dare launch a website without including analytics. Your app should be no different. With the world of application analytics still…
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Bidzy allows local service providers to place bids on services such as haircuts, nails, automotive services, etc., through their mobile app or website. A customer specifies when they need the service, how far they’d like to travel for the service, the minimum rating for the provider, and how much they are willing to pay. Bidzy…
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There are so many picture sharing services available that we tend to overlook the cousin to the digital picture: video. People use their camera phones for video recording every day, but seldom does an opportunity arise for organized and easily accessible video sharing. Juan Carlos Riveiro and Hendrik van der Meer, growing ever more frustrated…
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The fall 2012 AngelPad class was home to cisimple, as they began their mission to develop a continuous integration platform designed specifically for mobile development. Kevin Rohling and David Justice decided the world could use a platform for automating builds, test executions, and beta distribution to help developers locate and respond to problems quickly. Below,…
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If you have ever been in a crowded city, you know how hard it can be to find a ride. Flagging down taxis on a street corner is never the highpoint of anyone’s day. Even if you happen to find a ride, there is no guarantee you will not be overcharged, until now. RideAuction aims…
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According to a Pew Research survey from November, high school teachers believe that information online is overwhelming to students (83 percent), students are discouraged from using a wide range of sources (71 percent), and they have trouble finding credible information (60 percent). Put another way, the problems with Internet research – and in most cases,…
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Coming this spring, Splenvid is the latest solution to creating meaningful and comprehensive video content. Founded by former Google employees Henry Green and Jeff Raubitschek, Splenvid’s ambitious goal is to create videos automatically for you, no editing required. Green is like most people. He loves to take pictures with his children, commemorating memories as they are…
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Vayable cofounder Jamie Wong used to help friends with their travel plans. It was a hobby; it was something she was simply very passionate about: sharing her own experiences and tips to others. She travel-planned honeymoons, family vacations, and romantic getaways for friends – then she blogged about it on WordPress. This began to spark…
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Ninety pounds lighter than he was at his high school graduation, Caen Contee can finally call himself healthy. But it was a long journey: from helping out with his mother’s Brazilian recipes as a child, to being overweight from American fast food in high school, to suffering from bulimia in college. Now, Contee wants to…
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