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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Is 2012 the year you take on learning to code? I hung up my coding shoes in 2006, but that hasn’t stopped me from hacking on a project here and there over the last few years. But over time, my skills for specific programming languages have become outdated with the slew of new technologies available….
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Do you hold the idea for the greatest invention of all time, but unsure of how to get started to bring it to life? NYC-based startup Quirky is a social product development site – or online idea community – that gives anyone the chance to become a great inventor. When you post an idea on…
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SweetLabs recently announced Mixtape, the winner of first Pokki Challenge, “a contest that rewards web developers and designers for creating awesome desktop applications using HTML5.” The panel of four judges received more than 60 innovative applications over the course of just 6 weeks. Mixtape, created by Mohamed Tedjani Metfah, took home the $30,000 grand prize…
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It was only a matter of time before Apple’s voice activated assistant, Siri, was hacked. With the help of Applidium, hacker and developer Pete Lamoni (@plamoni) released Siri Proxy on GitHub. It’s a proxy server that allows developers and hackers to create custom functionality for the Apple software. Just a week later, here’s a list…
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If you’re a creative, you’ll want to watch this short video interview with Scott Belsky, founder of Behance, who spoke with Frank Gruber as part of our Delivering Happiness interview series. Behance is the largest online network of creative professionals in the world. They totally rethought the portfolio so creatives can really show off their…
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Google+ has been the talk of the summer. It’s been attracting new users at a record pace – all without the help of outside developers. Today, Google announced in a blog post that they have launched the first Google+ developer API. While this is only the first part of the Google+ API, it is still…
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A veteran of the startup world as creative lead at Threadless, Digg and others, Jeffrey Kalmikoff has been leading up the product team at San Francisco-based startup SimpleGeo. I got a chance to sit down with Jeffrey while at South by Southwest to discuss his role, experience, and share his advice for any entrepreneurs looking…
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Just like many of you, I have lots of apps on my phone (and even more that I’ve installed and deleted). The latest one I’ve been using is Summify. For now, I’m simply trying them out to see what type of innovation they’re bringing to discovering news stories. As a writer for Tech Cocktail, these types…
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“Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter Drucker I get asked from time to time what I believe makes someone an entrepreneur, and invariably I respond by saying that an entrepreneur is someone who sees a problem and says, “I can fix that.” Peoples’ definitions will vary, and…
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You may have the best idea for a new product, but bringing that concept from a sketch on a napkin to reality is not always the easiest thing to do. At yesterday’s conference, Zvi Band and Michael Mayernick walked attendees through the steps you need to take to actually launch a great product. Zvi is…
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As President, COO, and CoFounder of data visualization/creative agency JESS3, Leslie Bradshaw has been described as the “operational energy” behind JESS3’s explosive growth and international success. The Wall Street Journal recognized her as a Top Woman in Tech Under 30 and the “brains” driving the company forward. Her speech was short, to the point, and…
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Web standards are often formed with great intent to change the way we interface with the web, but lack of adoption by the giants in technology can make or break these standards. In the last decade there have been multiple initiatives to implement microformats for the web such as Yahoo’s SearchMonkey, Google’s Recipe Search, and…
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Evernote has launched their first ever Evernote Developer Competition, with $100,000 in prizes and a chance to make Evernote better than ever. The top apps will be showcased at the Evernote Trunk Conference in San Francisco on August 18. Over the past few years, Evernote has grown into an impressive community of 9 million plus…
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This is a guest blog post written by Tyler York, CEO of Trisse. A few months ago, before we started working on Trisse, my co-founder and I created a 99 Designs submission for a side project called Stash.ly. We never ended up implementing the project, but we learned a lot about how to work with designers…
Read MoreAs CTO of Threadless, Harper Reed helped grow the community-based company that prints designs created and chosen by users from 2 barely functioning servers to over 45 devices. He also helped Threadless produce a revenue of over $20 million. Reed has since moved on from Threadless and is working on his own secret startup. Harper…
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