December 2011
5 posts
With Factual, 1 API now unlocks data for 55... →
Application developers can now use one API to access data from Factual’s marketplace that contains data on more than 55 million places worldwide. And, as of today, that data includes places in China…
The 10 Best TED Talks of 2011 →
Watching videos online is usually considered fun, but generally a waste of time. Not so with TED videos, which are uniformly interesting, educational, inspiring, and enjoyable. If you haven’t…
Jawbone Cancels All Pending Up Orders, Refunds... →
For a company that generally sticks to fancy-pants Bluetooth headsets and speakers, Jawbone has done a surprisingly good job of making their UP fitness-wristband-thing into a rather trendy…
Enloop Wants To Take The Pain Out Of Writing A... →
Writing a business plan is no easy task — it can be painstaking. If you’ve ever written one, you’re probably familiar with the many websites that offer those static business plan and…
Spare Me From “Product Guys” →
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Aaron Harris is a co-founder of Tutorspree, the marketplace for tutoring. Follow him @harris, or take a lesson from him on Tutorspree.
We’re seeing…
November 2011
5 posts
Entrepreneurship Sucks →
The sad state of affairs is that working for yourself is really just a worse version of working for somebody else We really, deeply, unabashedly, lust after entrepreneurship. It’s the dream…
Paperlinks Makes Takeout Menus More Interactive... →
Y Combinator-backed Paperlinks, which creates QR codes for businesses and brands with an emphasis on the design of the code itself, is hoping to reinvent takeout menus with its…
Battery Breakthrough Could Improve Capacity And... →
It’s no secret that batteries are holding back mobile technology. It’s nothing against the battery companies, which are surely dedicating quite a lot of R&D to improving their technology,…
Updated Apple Store App Makes For Less Painful... →
The holidays will soon be upon us, and with them will come the inevitable clogging of our nation’s retail arteries. How fortunate then that Apple has just released an update to their Apple…
WhiteyPaint Turns Walls Into Whiteboards Without... →
Feeling useless?
The folks over at WhiteyBoard seem to have a solution: WhiteyPaint. As WhiteyPaint’s motto so clearly points out, “you’re useless without it.” While the verdict’s still…
iHealth HS3 Bluetooth Body Scale reveals your... →
While my long-term quest for fitness has been stymied by a severe lack of motivation to actually get off of my butt and exercise, it comforts me to know that there are plenty of…
October 2011
13 posts
The Most Effective Habit For Entrepreneurs →
Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book is I…
Mint Finally Brings Personal Finance Platform To... →
Mint.com has been available on a variety of mobile platforms, including iPhone and Android, but has not developed an iPad app. Considering the popularity of other finance apps on the iPad…
iPod Godfather Tony Fadell Finally Reveals His New... →
For the last eighteen months, the tech world has been anxiously awaiting news of what iPod godfather Tony Fadell is up to. His staff has been sworn to secrecy since word got out he was…
A Restaurant, Dive Shop, And Bakery Share Their... →
With Groupon reportedly set to begin its IPO road show early next week, it’s a good time to revisit the deal site. Is Groupon a great, lucrative deal for its merchants, a swindle or
Web Design Community Treehouse Raises $600K From... →
The ink is now dry on term sheets signed by web-design education startup Treehouse. Impressively, those term sheets contain the autographs of Kevin Rose, Reid Hoffman, David Sze, …
Watch Ryan sketch and code a UI from scratch on... →
Last month the folks from PeepCode visited our office and asked to record my design process. Geoffrey told me not to prepare anything. He said he’d show up with a sample problem and simply record…
Understanding How Dilution Affects You At A... →
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog, BothSidesoftheTable.
Everybody…
Somfy’s TaHomA Lets You Control The House From... →
I’m not a homeowner myself, but something tells me that when I do buy a house, I’m going to want something like the TaHomA home automation system to ensure that I can be as lazy as…
LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup... →
Professional social network LinkedIn is on a bit of an acquisition spree. In its second purchase in two weeks, LinkedIn has acquired hosted search startup IndexTank. Financial terms of…
Steve Jobs changed →
He changed computers.
He changed software.
He changed design.
He changed publishing.
He changed film.
He changed music.
He changed advertising.
He changed retail.
He changed business. He…
Pinterest Joins Twitter And Facebook As The Newest... →
Get ready to start hearing a lot about Pinterest. From the New York Times to The Wall Street Journal to XOJane it seems like more people in the mainstream press are covering and…
Who Should You Trust? Redfin Launches A Scouting... →
Redfin, the online platform for real estate search and brokerage services, has made some noise in the past, building a service that’s currently being valued at $230 million, at least…
September 2011
7 posts
Farmeron, ‘Google Analytics For Farms’, Secures... →
Ever had cows instead of users? You’ve probably never thought about building software for farmers, but Farmeron just raised a round of investment as well as support from 500 Startups, a seed…
You Can Now Get A Taste Of The New Delicious... →
Delicious is back. Million dollar question is not: will you use the revamped social bookmarking service? But rather, will your mom, sister, and that dorky teenage kid from across the…
Free Startup Tools: How Does Your Term Sheet... →
At some point in the game, every entrepreneur and startup founder becomes familiar with the term sheet. But “familiarity” can be a tricky qualifier. Even by one’s third startup, entrepreneurs…
Conceptboard Debuts Better Whiteboarding For... →
It’s only been a few days since the launch of the official Google+ Hangouts API (application programming interface), but we’re already starting to see some interesting implementations make…
37signals.com homepage evolution →
Christmas 2010 I had the idea to make a video of the 37signals homepage. I’d recently gained access to the relevant source code repositories and It seemed like a fun thing to do over a weekend. The…
Fanhattan App Helps You Choose What To Watch On... →
There are plenty of apps that let you watch TV and movies on your iPad: Hulu Plus, Netflix, Vudu and even trusty old iTunes. But how do you know what’s available out there? Guess what!…
If You’re Feeling S.A.D. Try A Valkee – Special... →
Back in January we noticed a clever little device which claimed to ease seasonal depression – sometimes known as Seasonal Affected Disorder or SAD. The Finnish Valkee is Sci-Fi style…
August 2011
5 posts
What Kills Startups? Blackbox Releases Report/App... →
It’s not easy being green — or an entrepreneur. The inherent risk in becoming an entrepreneur or founding a startup is high. Sleepless nights, sweat equity, bribing new users to come to your…
StackMob, The “Heroku For Mobile”, Partners With…... →
We’ve written about StackMob twice, both times calling it the “Heroku For Mobile” in the title. Yeah, “X For Y” titles are pretty lame. But I mean, that’s pretty much exactly what…
From Big Data to NoSQL: The ReadWriteWeb Guide to... →
It’s hard to keep track of all the database-related terms you hear these days. What constitutes “big data”? What is NoSQL, and why are your developers so interested in it? And now “NewSQL”? Where…
Photojojo phone lenses give your iPhone a new set... →
I’ve been a fan of Photojojo for a while. The site sells all sorts of fun and useful camera gear and gifts, things like an SLR Bokeh kit or a inexpensive point-and-shoot tilt-shift…
Make your iPad 2 look like a Gameboy with this... →
Lootiful has a line of snap-on iPWN cases that protect your iPhone in style by making it look like a Nintendo Gameboy. The business, run by a single graphics designer, has now extended…
July 2011
3 posts
Google Offers To Re-Write Your Webpages On The... →
Google has long been obsessed with speed. It’s paramount in pretty much everything they do. Which is why the launch of Google+ with some — gasp — attention paid to design is even more surprising….
The Olympus PEN E-P3: Making Cameras Fun Again →
Features:
Micro 4/3s Lens Mount System
HD Video Recording
12.3-Megapixel Sensor
3-inch touchscreen display
MSRP: $899 with lens
Pros:
Small, light, and solid
Touchscreen and built-in…
Building An Enterprise Software Company That... →
Editor’s note: Guest author Aaron Levie is the founder and CEO of Box.net
Thomas Wailgum, an editor at CIO.com, summed up the enterprise software industry best when he wrote, “It might…
June 2011
3 posts
Google Quietly Rolls Out WDYL.com: A Range Of... →
This morning, we got tipped to check out wdyl.com. The tipster noted that it was apparently a new Google site attempting to “create a unified UI to search in multiple channels”. Sure enough,…
Startup Wins Funding For iPhone App To Scan Skin... →
How would you feel about an iPhone app that claimed to be able to tell if that mole on your arm was not looking too healthy? That’s the claim of Skin Scan, an iPhone medical app available now on…
Prototypes makes iPhone mockups a breeze →
This is a cool one, at least for iPhone app designers. Prototypes is a Mac app that lets you take those handcrafted mockups of iPhone screens and turn them into a clickable demo you can…
My Job As A Pre-Launch Startup CEO Was To Buy... →
Seth Sternberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Meebo. He previously worked in M&A at IBM.
I love talking to aspiring entrepreneurs—I do it once a week at minimum.
I often get asked “what’s…
May 2011
7 posts
Square’s Disruptive New iPad Payments Service Will... →
Mobile payments startup Square is announcing big numbers today—500,000 Square card readers shipped, 1 million Square transactions in May, and the startup is now processing $3 million in mobile…
Exclusive: Gilt Taste Is Cooking Up An iPad App... →
Earlier today, Gilt launched the latest addition to its group-buying sites with Gilt Taste—a very pricey online purveyor of produce, meats, fish, cheese, and other “artisinal” foods. While…
TurningArt Raises $750K To Be The Netflix For... →
TurningArt, a startup that aims bring a Netflix-like model to the art world, has secured $750,000 in seed funding led by NextView Ventures with participation from Niraj Shah, Steve Conine,…
Facebook Now Allows You To Tag Pages In Photos →
Facebook has launched a new feature today for photo tagging that is sure to make brands and celebs happy. Now, you can tag photos with a brand, product, company or person’s Facebook page,…
Frisbee Forever is better than the real thing →
One of my favorite things to do on a sunny day is go to Hyde Park and play Frisbee with some friends. However, after playing Frisbee Forever, the officially licensed Frisbee game, playing…
Google Search Globe Visualizes Daily Queries... →
Google has just released a new tool that visualizes search queries on its search engine from around the world. Called the Search Globe, the browser-based tool shows you where searches are…
April 2011
6 posts
Onavo Is A Money-Saving, Must-Have App For EVERY... →
There’s really no better way to describe Onavo other than a must-have app for any and every iPhone user on a data plan. I’ll go a step further: I think it’s the very first app one should…
Review: World of Goo HD for iPad and iPhone →
Few games are as fun, interesting, and enjoyably complicated as what you’ll find in this top-flight puzzle game for the latest iOS devices.