[Translate] TechCrunch Disrupt is into its third day of activities in New York City, and while this blogger’s not there for the second year (I’ll opt for San Francisco because I’ve jumped times zones 15 times this year already), I follow it via online accounts. In searching for “TechCrunch” on Google Search, it was not hard to...
[Translate] AMAZING. Shaker, the Facebook application that turns the social network Facebook into the second coming of Second Life, won TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 Startup Battlefield. The more detailed blog post was put off because it was time to party. And for good reason. It’s not often in life that a friend of yours is involved in a new startup company that draws thousands of users, wins a “venture capital competition” which is what the Startup Battlefield is, and asks you to be a part of the initial presentation. But...
[Translate] TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 is underway and this blogger was finally able to sit down and post this first entry. There are over 200 companies at the San Francisco Design Center, and of them, about 50 percent are involved in some kind of location-based platform, an app, or both. And even when that’s not the case, the startups are still interesting. One of the companies that’s an interesting location-based app is called Vibe by Zami.com. (Which goes by another name online: “Ask Local”)...
[Translate] TechCrunch Distrupt San Francisco is next week, September 12th-14th, and the TechCrunch Hackathon is this weekend, starting Saturday and running through Sunday. And for this Disrupt, the field of startups is not only larger, but more marketing and PR savvy, just judging from the number of requests for meeting times this blogger has received. Frankly, the firm’s offer much promise to, well, disrupt what we do: Americans Elect, CrowdEngineering, Lemon.com, Dome9, Select2gether, WikiOrgCharts, Zendesk, Dap’s...
[Translate] A new entry into the growing online meeting space is vCita. vCita’s a new “one-stop solution” that will debut at next week’s Tech Crunch Disrupt San Francisco (September 12-14). In an email to this blogger, the creators of vCita, describe it like this: Currently in beta, vCita was created to address the current piecemealing that is taking place for small businesses and their scheduling technologies. Many companies currently use Tungle to schedule, GoToMeeting for conferencing and PayPal for...
