Technology, Popular Culture & Society
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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, 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 »
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 »
Gogobot, the social travel site that connects users with friends via social sites for personalized travel advice, will be one of the first companies to integrate the Facebook Send button. Now, when people visit Gogobot to research, plan or book their next trip, they can send questions to specific friends on Facebook. The Send button is a tool designed to share the things you might not want to publicize to all of your friends. For instance, if you are planning a summer trip to somewhere tropical, you may not want all your friends knowing your main activity of interest is the local public library tour. The Send button is perfect for sending questions directly to the most relevant people on Facebook, like a few old English major classmates, rather than posting to your whole group of friends. Read More »
IMVU, an online social entertainment destination where members use 3D avatars to meet new people, chat, create and play games with their friends recently surveyed the company’s U.S. and UK members to learn their thoughts on royalty and the royal wedding. They asked them everything from whether or not they would tweet, update their Facebook page or take pictures with their cell phones at the wedding (even though it’s against the rules – gasp!); to whether they believe the tabloids will pursue Kate as much as they do other members of the royal family. Here is what they discovered: 66.4% of U.S. respondents and 68.1% of U.K. respondents said they would refrain from tweeting, updating their Facebook statuses or taking pictures during the wedding if it were against the rules. Read More »
There’s less than two weeks until the Royal Wedding but many Americans aren’t sharing the wedding fever that has captured the interest of so many around the world, according to the results of recent PriceGrabber survey of 2,842 U.S. online consumers (April 1 to April 7th). Survey results revealed that 41 percent of respondents indicated they are disinterested in the upcoming Royal Wedding and another 11 percent are moderately disinterested. Only seven percent of consumers are very interested and 21 percent are moderately interested. Additionally, 95 percent of respondents do not plan to attend or host a party to celebrate the wedding and 92 percent do not plan to purchase Royal Wedding commemorative merchandise. Read More »
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