Bring on the APIs was the theme for SF New Tech’s last event where several companies talked about their APIs, including Viadeo who launched their API stateside at the event- check out the video to see some of Silicon Valley’s finest talking about why API’s are the future of the Internet. Article source: TNW...
Daily Archives: September 16, 2011
7th graders learn spatial reasoning through video game Portal
Elementary school would have been much more interesting if educational field trips involved creating our own levels in video games. For one class of seventh graders at Evergreen School, a trip to Valve Software provided exactly that. After instructing these students to create their own levels for the popular video game title Portal using...
Cats Using Computers
Image: Flickr/Stephen Woods See Also: WHOA: Did This Accessory Maker Just Leak The iPhone 5 Design? * The 6 Hottest Sports Cars At The 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show The Most Miserable Cities In America Computers are pretty vital to humans’ lives. Some people think cats are too. When you put them together, well, you...
Twitter Is Building A Ready-To-Go Public Board, And That’s Why Fred Wilson Is Out
These people agree that the decision was mutual, that it makes sense for both sides, and that it is part of the natural evolution of companies. For Fred and Bijan the move is a good one because they are both paid to find early stage investments, not sit on the boards of soon-to-be public...
Y Combinator-Backed SellStage Wants To Help You Better Showcase Your Products — With Video
If you’re advertising a product, would you rather simply have an image of that product, or have your consumers be able to watch a video of that product in action? Unless you’re sarcastic like myself, you probably answered with the latter, because the truth is that videos help products sell online. This is true...
MasterCard engages the senses with mobile payment tech
MasterCard is working on a number of fronts to bring mobile payments to the market, partnering with Google on Google Wallet and throwing support behind Isis, the carrier-led NFC joint venture. But it’s got some interesting ideas of its own on how to spur mobile payments, shopping and interaction with a mobile phone. The...
New York Startup Warby Parker Raising A Big Round At ~ $100 Million Valuation
There are other online glasses retailers, but investors’ excitement for New York-based Warby Parker seems to stem from its early traction and the big industry it disrupts. “It’s an overnight sensation which is very attractive,” says one source. “It came out of the gate fast and hard and solves a real problem. No one...
RIM’s BBM Service Suffers Partial Outage In Canada, Latin America
RIM, to put it mildly, has been having it rough these past few days. Among other things, they’ve failed to hit their quarterly revenue goal, sold far fewer PlayBooks than they had hoped, and potentially let their market share slip into the single digits. After all that, RIM didn’t need any more problems, but...
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Do Your Homework First
Real Estate is one of the best investment vehicles in India and is still a relatively unorganized market from a Web enablement perspective. The business looks extremely promising and with proper execution, can become a sizable enterprise over time. JobVoyage Next, Nir Savitzki from Israel, presented JobVoyage, a social CRM service for job seekers....
10 Gadgets That Changed EVERYTHING (AAPL, AMZN, SNE)
Image: Dylan Love See Also: 7 Movies That MUST Bank Over $100 Million Inflation Rates Around The World These Robots Can Kill You Or Clean Your House As we obsess over the newest latest technology, some of which isn’t even available yet, it’s nice to take a nostalgic look at great gadgets of the...