Last week at State of the Startup, a monthly event in NY (which I co-hosted) focused on the latest trends in the startup world, Charming Robot and Hard Candy Shell cofounder Dan Maccarone gave a talk titled “User experience trends and you.” In true tough-love fashion, Maccarone covered a number of trends and ultimately explained the...
Editor’s note: Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. More about Ben here. He hangs out 24*7 on Twitter. At VMware’s annual extravaganza in San Francisco this past week, VMware’s application to join OpenStack was announced. The keynote in which it was announced held somewhere around 20000 people, arguably the...
Back in July, Dalton Caldwell (of imeem and picplz fame) announced an “audacious” goal: To create a better, developer-and-user-supported (and ad-free) alternative to Twitter. And so App.net was born. About a month later, the subscription-based, third party app-supporting Twitter clone reached its fund-raising goal of $500K — all of which came from a community...
At the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA) tradeshow, a company called FVIEW was promoting a 13.3-inch Windows PAD and a 9.7″ Media Tablet. The former was accompanied by an image showing a Microsoft Surface tablet apparently running Windows RT while the latter was depicted as a tablet running some form of Windows 8. Too bad...
On Instagram’s blog today there’s an article about a couple having their wedding shot with iPhones and processed entirely in Instagram. Having your entire wedding run through the Rise filter sounds like an aesthetic choice you’ll hate in a couple of years, much less your kids and grandkids. All of those photographs of your...
People keep writing about Twitter — and for good reason. In its short life, the micro-blogging platform’s torrent of speech has fueled revolutions, goosed journalism and changed the way we watch news and sports. Like Google and Facebook before it, Twitter is disrupting how we communicate and interact. The difference is that, unlike the...
We asked these entrepreneurs: What are some of the challenges of operating in an emerging market, and how is your startup overcoming those challenges? Sticking to sustainable food “Our emerging market is sustainable food! The most challenging part of operating in this market is engaging people who aren’t necessarily interested in growing their own...
When you read or hear the name, the LapDawg O-Stand kind-of sounds like something you would find in a adult store, but, in reality, it happens to be one of the most interesting gadget stands I have ever had the pleasure of coming across. The O-Stand is marketed as “the most versatile iPad stand on...
Let’s pretend that you’re a blogger. You’re given the chance to review new, hot hardware from a major company. All that’s required is that you participate in some tasks, but these tasks would fit into your coverage so you agree. In return you get to be one of the first to go hands-on with...
Earlier today I was showing a friend this spectacular Oregon Duck Gangnam Style parody video and saw a two and a half-minute ad in which James Franco displays the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. My first reaction was: how have I not heard of this before? The ad is almost two weeks old, but I’m...