Over 50 million Americans between the ages of 13 to 25 live and breathe on Facebook. These same students spend an average of 2 hours connected to this dominant social media site everyday, yet schools and districts across the country block the site due to fear, the threat of cyberbullying, and potential misconduct. Startup TalkChalk…
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Smartphones have opened many new channels for mobile communication. In the old days, you could either call your contacts or text them. Today there are endless ways to communicate and even more ways to follow your contacts: email, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn…and the list goes on. Contapps, a popular free Android app, helps users manage…
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I have been hitting up my friends lately for help with moving and putting together a boatload of IKEA furniture – always fun! Luckily, I know who I can turn to for stuff like that, but the app from LocalHero is a great alternative for finding friends who can lend a hand with things you…
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Since leaving Digg back in March, Kevin Rose has been hard at work building his next company – Milk Inc. Milk is a mobile development shop with plans to build a number of applications. The world got its initial preview of Milk’s first application called Oink at the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago….
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Last month marked the launch of Spn.ee, the first social media tool that can measure your social media ROI. If you’ve ever wondered if that product review you tweeted about or that article you shared actually generated any sales, Spn.ee can help you find out. Founded by Michael Mayernick and Adam Bonnifield, Spn.ee tracks how…
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Thousands of full-length films are made every year, yet a fraction get the exposure of the big screen. Prescreen aims to be that online venue that offers great, yet often undiscovered or underexposed movies to its audience of movie lovers. It does so in the style of the daily deal model, a model founder Shawn…
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A few weeks ago, I was approached by Alex Schiff, a young entrepreneur currently attending the University of Michigan. He gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse: an exclusive preview of Fetchnotes, a cloud-based note-taking application he was working on with co-founder Chase Lee. As a college junior, I was curious to see how a…
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CoCollage was a showcased startup at our Tech Cocktail Seattle mixer last week, and I really wish I had been there to meet the CoCollage team and shake their hands, because they are attempting to take social networking to the next level. Yes, that is a lofty goal, but I think they are on to…
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With the number of social platform options for sharing your status, location, photos and more, there is an opportunity to leverage the existing data to create interesting new experiences. If this sounds a little vague then let me explain. For example, if you own a coffee shop, it may be interesting to showcase some of…
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Do you lean on certain groups of friends to share and recommend books, websites or videos? Chances are you are sharing via email. Email takes care of one-to-one sharing; Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon cover one-to-many sharing, but there are few services that cater exclusively to small group sharing. Skmmr offers a new way to share…
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First the purview of professionals, then available to the masses via the desktop – quality video editing can be added to the software services now available in the cloud thanks to WeVideo. WeVideo is a web-based, collaborative editing platform. It’s a fully-loaded video editor that allows users to craft a story with others, add effects,…
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It is true that some things – shopping or bar hopping, for instance – are better with friends. In college, almost everything is done with friends, even the mundane and necessary thins, like laundry, running errands, and studying. Bloomington, IN-based Swarm is leveraging that group mentality of 20 somethings with their mobile social network that…
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I know what you’re thinking: another mobile marketplace. Great. Yes, it is great actually. Here’s a mobile marketplace with a distinct niche: Seattle-based startup OfferUp instantly distributes items for sale across a handful of platforms, saving you at least 30 minutes. And, they are starting out by targeting moms – smart move, as parents are…
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Welcome to the future of music television. Thanks for tuning in. This is the bold welcome the founders of Cull.TV, a startup out of the San Fransisco Bay area, gives to would-be video curators who use the service to create their own playlists or discover new music videos. Cull.TV greets you with a retro, somewhat…
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LiveFyre, the San Francisco-based software platform that enables anyone to add a commenting system to a website, has secured an additional $4.5 million in a new round of funding led by Greycroft Partners and digital media investors Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital. Livefyre’s commenting platform is currently installed on more than 14,000 websites, including…
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There are so many cool apps out there, but one I really love is Retrollect, a free mobile app that lets you create a visual mashup of your life and that I covered back in May. It has been retooled into a new and improved Retrollect 2. They recoded their iPhone app and made it…
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