[Translate] Ah, gone are the days when IGDA parties were simple affairs where you had cocktails, met interesting people, and OK, interesting females-in-tech, and here are the days, or at least this week, where we have news of a party that bent what I thought were the unwritten rules of GDC / IGDA events: don’t piss off anyone. The last IGDA Party I attended, I interviewed this painter guy from SF: And other than his work, the party was just what I described. But this year, its apparent YetiZen and its CEO Sana N Choudary...
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[Translate] On January 23rd 2013 this blogger was contacted by Vinay Patankar, the Founder and CEO of a new microvlog app called Vitoto regarding trying out the app, and providing feed back on his product. I sent an email reply, and then took one look at the app, figuring I would blog about it at some point in the very near future. And I say very near future, because the microvideo industry is growing by leaps and bounds. Vitoto was a relatively unknown player in a crowded field that includes Tout, Socialcam, Viddy, Shoutz, Vidoco,...
[Translate] AutoReturn, the towing company that has been featured in this space before, is announcing a new cloud-based municipal operations technology called ARIED Online. Here’s the full press release: AutoReturn, the nation’s leading municipal towing management and logistics company, today announced the successful implementation of the company’s cloud-based technology, ARIES Online, as a stand-alone technology offering to the City of Concord. “We are pleased to bring this technology to municipalities around the country...
[Translate] Want proof that Twitter’s become the World’s information source? Read on. So this blogger, me, took his common several time a day look at Google Trends for Monday, March 11th and found that sitting right at number one position was “Mother’s Day.” A click on the link for that Google “hot search” revealed content, blogs, and articles, written with “Mother’s Day” in the title. And Google News, which claims to show the news that’s happening in real time,...
[Translate] Foursquare, the popular location-based social networ, is broken. This blogger makes such an assertion because someone named JaxonP has managed to fraudulently insert themselves in mayor of Lakeshore Cafe, the popular eatery in the Tresle Glen area of Oakland. Trouble is, he has just 14 checkins in 60 days, whereas I have 36 checkins over the same period. Moreover, I was at Lakeshore Cafe yesterday, and the day before, and many times last week and never saw evidence of this JaxonP, and staff has never seen him or heard...
[Translate] This infographic released last fall from the 100 Million Club, the watchlist of the top mobile platforms and handset manufacturers, has some information that puts the size and growth of the industry in perspective. From the publisher: - Smartphone sales penetration continues to accelerate, growing from nearly 30% in Q3 2011 to nearly 40% in Q2 2012 - Nearly 2 out of every 3 smartphones shipped in H1 2012 were Android devices - Despite low device sales, the Windows platform already has over 100K available apps in Windows...
[Translate] Stickam Livestream will go out of business on February 28th. That’s the sad but not surprising news from an email just received 10 minutes ago. This blogger joined Stickam in 2005, and placed its livestream blog widget on the older, Blogger version of Zennie62, but never used it; USTREAM provided a better livestream platform for our purposes, and we used it at the 2007 NFL Draft. But when I think of Stickam, I think of Jessi Slaughter. To understand why, and who Jessi Slaughter is or was, read on. Here is the...
[Translate] Newsvine is a news aggregator of sorts. What a news aggregator is and does is collect content that the poster considers news. That means when you, the poster, has news content and places it on Newsvine, that ads to its collection – and ads a link back to the original site of the content. Newsvine’s contracted with a service this blogger uses called OnlyWire, where the owner of a self-hosted WordPress blog can configure it to auto-post to as many as 47 different sites – Newsvine is one of those sites....
[Translate] Kidz Gear, the company ran by Lauren and Jack Petersen, who I talked to over dinner at Fleur at CES, Las Vegas, last week… Has a new announcement. Here’s the press release: Kidz Gear www.GearForKidz.com, the award-winning Grown-up Performance, Built for Kids! brand, announced today that KidzControl™ Volume Limited Headphones for Kids has won the 2013 Learning Magazine’s Teachers’ Choice Award for Excellence in Classroom Products. Learning Magazine recognized the Kidz Gear KidzControl™ Volume...
[Translate] If Facebook’s basing its future on the “Open Graph” it’s a good bet only if the real system’s much more than the demo presented by Facebook today. Look. The reason Facebook works is because it follows “Abraham’s Law Of Social Media”: People Are Voyeurs. People want to know about other people, who they are, what they do, and most important, what they have in common with them. Anyone who knows how to use the current Facebook can do much of what the new service promises...
[Translate] Social TV, the basic process of using your smartphone, laptop, or tablet to make comments on a TV show you happen to be watching at the time, is not something that’s going away any time soon. In fact, the “second screen phenomena” show signs of doing nothing but exploding. This blogger was compelled to write a rebuttal to Ad Age Media Columnist Simon Dumenco’s take that social TV was coming to an end and becoming just “TV.” In reading Simon’s post, I got the feeling he got...
[Translate] Tim Tebow’s coming to Sin City for CES 2013! (Zennie62 coverage of CES sponsored by Tout.com) New York Jets QB and Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow’s making his first official product launch at CES, with his Thursday, January 11th appearance at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas at 9 AM. Now, Tebow is trying to catch the wave that made Dr. Dre rich: his own line of headphones by SOUL Electronics will introduced. Called the SL300TEBOW – Tim Tebow Signature Series, SOUL Electronics describes the new product this...
