Three startup veterans, Geoff Ralston, Tim Brady, and Alan Louie are the brains (or wallets) behind Imagine K12. This new startup is modeled closely after Y Combinator, except that they will focus on education. Their prime directive is “to effect positive change in the K-12 education space.” Rather than speculate, share opinions, or dump money [...]
Archive for March, 2011
The HTC Thunderbolt, The first 4G LTE smartphone for Verizon, arrives today, March 17th. The Android 2.2 device features the latest version of HTC Sense. The new Sense experience includes new personalization options, consolidated email inbox, and camera effects and filters. The ThunderBolt comes with all of the standard apps you’d expect from Google and [ Read More ]
A group of intelligent folks at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival were having a conversation over dinner. The discussion eventually moved to the fact that there isn’t really a customizable platform that an author, athlete, journalist/writer, publisher, PR firm or other brand could use to create an online identity kit. From this [...]
Finally, a way to figure out who the black tech entrepreneurs are. Black Founders will provide a way to “connect black entrepreneurs and technology startup professionals in Silicon Valley and around the world.” The mission is simple: to empower entrepreneurs and provide founders with access to advice, mentorship, and funding. It is the brain child [...]
According to “a person familiar with the decision,” Microsoft will no longer produce the Zune media player. The reasoning boils down to supply and demand. Not enough people demand to own the device. The Zune was probably the one device that had a chance to challenge the iPod. Obviously, it still wasn’t enough. It’s not [...]
MyCulture.tv features high-quality and culturally diverse web content. The focus is on content for people of color and aims to bring the highest standards by judging each piece on subject matter and quality. They will serve as a hub to showcase the best videos across the web, as well as a home for original web [...]
Foursquare is definitely doing big things for SXSW this year. Their launch of Foursquare 3.0 is extremely important in the evolution of the service, bringing automated recommendations. This means that, instead of just letting you tell people where you are, Foursquare now tells you where to go. This is a pretty big deal and something [...]
Results from Horowitz Associates, Inc.’s annual State of Cable and Digital Media – Multicultural Edition 2011 study have just been released and reveal some interesting facts about urban consumers. On a weekly basis, about a third (31%) of urban consumers watch TV content on a computer/laptop, a mobile device/tablet, or streamed directly from the Internet [...]
Twitter’s #DickBar Debacle Earlier this week, Twitter released an update to their official iPhone application which brought along a “feature” not well received by users of the application. It added a bar which overlaid your tweet stream, displaying trending topics and often Promoted Trends. While Twitter feels these trends add value for users, most users [...]
At a press event Thursday at their headquarters in Mountain View, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and SVP of Product Deep Nishar discussed the company’s product strategy. They covered a few previously released products, including LinkedIn InMaps and LinkedIn Signal. They also covered their new LinkedIn Today product. LinkedIn Today leverages the vast amount of professional [...]
AOL will cut 200 jobs in the U.S. and 700 in India said CEO Tim Armstrong Thursday at the Bloomberg Media Summit in New York City. Armstrong says that AOL’s staff is moving toward 70% editorial and other content divisions. They are also moving to having less freelancers and more full-time staff. The Huffington Post [...]
While the iPad 2 isn’t coming until March 11th, it looks like Apple decided to jump the gun and get iOS 4.3 out to the public. It became available yesterday so you can go update your device right now. The update includes enhancements to the AirPlay feature, Safari browser, and iPad side switch. New features [...]
Tomorrow, in Washington, the Obamas will host an anti-bullying conference at the White House. The US Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, students, parents, and teachers are invited to discuss how to stop this bullying epidemic. The video description states: A special Facebook message from President Barack Obama and First Lady [...]
Fabulis is…uh…was a social network for gay men and their friends. It all started in January of 2010 and has been going strong ever since. Eventually, the name changed from Fabulis to Fab and the focus of the site seemed to shift from sexual orientation to design and discounts. Also, the team feels there has [ Read More ]
Group chat and location are two of the hottest tech trends right now. Beluga just got snatched up by Facebook and Kik just got a round of funding and added photo sharing. Foursquare just launched version 3.0 which includes real-world recommendations. It actually tells you where to go and RWW calls it Foursquare’s Google moment. [...]
