Archive for June, 2009

Boston Startups: Tikatok – A Children’s Book Creation Platform (One for the Kids) June 30, 2009 1 Comment

Have you ever set out on a creative project with your kids to try to make a book from start to finish?  I don’t have personal experience with this myself, but I can imagine that the art and story writing with your kid(s) is the easy part.  The actual creating and binding of the book [...]

Boston Startups: Sponty – Stop Pushing Email and Pull Your Social Life June 29, 2009 2 Comments

Every social circle is different it seems.  People have their work, agendas and times when they want to be social and hang out.  When my group of friends here in Boston and other places I’ve lived made plans to hang out, we typically do the planning via the phone, email or text.  I usually didn’t [...]

Boston Startups: Tipjoy – Social Micro-Payments that Aim to Please June 25, 2009 No Comments

I’ve written about it before on this blog: I really believe that it’s time to begin to break down the walls of free value on the web in the form of excellent media and content.  So with that being said, I get really excited when new ideas around revenue generation within the web realm pop [...]

Today in Technology: The MySpace Mess – Why MySpace Should Exclusively be a Music Site June 23, 2009 No Comments

Do you still have a MySpace account?  I cancelled mine almost immediately after Facebook let me in, and haven’t looked back.  The whole time I was using MySpace, I found the UI to be pretty poor from a design perspective.  The one gem of value I did (and still do) get from the service is [...]

Boston Startups: CitySquares – Why Hyper Local Matters June 22, 2009 1 Comment

CitySquares is a Boston based startup whose web application is devoted to hyper local search and discovery. Now before you write off the company with your “these guys can never win, they’re in the same space as Google” thinking, hear me out. Hyper local matters, and we’ve yet to see a real winner [...]

Today in Technology: Checking in on New Real Time Search Services Collecta and Scoopler June 19, 2009 No Comments

Lots of buzz around real time search these days, and lots of venture dollars to boot.  During the past presidential election, I had what was perhaps my best exposure to the possibilities of real time search with election.twitter.com (down now obviously).  The premise of the service was to stream (in real-time) any and all tweets [...]

Boston Startups: The Rentables – Filter, Compare, Rent June 18, 2009 5 Comments

How do you look for apartments to rent?  Do you walk into a real estate office and talk to an agent who will show you listings? Apartment rental agencies (and housing search for that matter) seems to be going the way of the travel agency – away – thanks to the many online [...]