Top of the Twitter (Food) Chain : Chicago Edition
So this begins a new weekly series of posts of 10 to follow on Twitter because, obviously, #FF... Read More »
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STP Has Reached Our 1,000th post, WOWZAAAA!
It seems fitting that upon starting this New Year and feeling really good about the upcoming months, that... Read More »
The Newest Buzz About Keeping Your Electronics Clean: BuzzBrush
Recently Socialtechpop's founder, Jess Loren, went to an event called Swagapalooza which was at Double Door in Chicago.... Read More »
Looking For A Sugar Daddy? There’s An App For That….
Leading sugar dating website, SugarSugar.com, recently announced the launch of an innovative mobile application for locating singles interested in the “sugar†lifestyle: the SugarSugar Dating App. The new, location-based app is designed to provide Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies with a quick, effective and discreet way to locate one another as they go about their every-day lives. Read More »
Development of a Global Social Network: Robert Sanchez
Data illustrates about 500 million people are actively registered with Facebook, 47million on Twitter, and a total of 1,966,514,816 million using the Internet. The questionnow is how to extend the benefits of social networking to the remaining 4.2 billion. Around 3 billion of these individuals communicate through mobile phones; not smartphones but basic cellular phones, which are more frequently used for texting rather thancalls. Developing countries currently show an annual phone adoption rate of about 10percent, with 67.6 percent of individuals already being phone owners. Read More »
Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators AKA Incubators
Tech Cocktail in conjunction with Kauffman Fellows and Kellogg School of Management announced the country’s top 15 accelerator and incubator programs for startup companies. The number one position went to TechStars in Boulder, CO followed closely by Y Combinator in Mountain View, CA and Excelerate Labs in Chicago. Here is a link to the full rankings and study methodology: http://techcocktail.com/top-15-us-startup-accelerators-ranked-2011-05 Read More »
From the Brink of Flunking to a Successful Startup
Yanked out into the hallway in the middle of an iPhone development class in the fall of 2008, Rob Matthews was challenged by his professor to create an innovative business plan for an iPhone app or risk failing the course. Fast forward to 2011, and Rob is the President and CEO of AirRun , one of the newest free iPhone applications to hit Apple’s App Store. AirRun connects two groups of people – those who are looking for a product or service (seekers) and those willing to perform the task (runners) – in a geography-based marketplace. Read More »
“Unite in Freedom†on Facebook
Immediately after the news broke of bin Laden’s capture, people took to the streets to show their support and relief. Now that conversation is turning online, where people are sharing their opinions on this historical event with their friends and family. Kisseo has reacted to this with their new “United in Freedom†Facebook app. Users can select the "United in Freedom" card that captures their sentiments and easily send it to all their friends on Facebook.. They have also posted the cards on Kisseo.com. Read More »
Wordspreadz Plans To Facilitate Discussion On Globally Relevant Topics
Wordspreadz, a new inclusive social network, brings a compelling new approach to social networking with the objective of facilitating discussion on globally relevant topics and enhancing the caliber and depth of interaction among its members. To pique interest, Wordspreadz asks users to express their thoughtfully developed positions, offer relevant details and post pictures and videos relating to a range of continually expanding open-ended questions. Topics range from complex issues such as whether to add a new amendment to the United States Constitution or the status of a particular nation’s political unrest to less controversial topics such as what was the worst vacation they ever had and what bands they would want to see in a small club. Read More »
Eight Songs In Eight Hours
Ready to rethink music? Today, Damian Kulash of Ok Go will join his friends (and yours) Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and Ben Folds at the Rethink Music conference in Boston to write and record eight songs in eight hours. Then play a concert. And release an album. And explore/re-conceptualize the entire notion of artistic creation and its mechanical dissemination and human reception in these topsy-turvy modern times of ours. All of this will be available to the public via a live webstream set up in the studio, which began at 4 pm EST. Read More »
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