Spotify unveiled a new user interface across just about all of it's platforms. This is Spotify's biggest redesign. Typically they've changed features here and there across different platforms, and made updates while adding platforms but this redesign is jus about across the board. The web, iPhone, Android and Mac all received the same redesign, reports [...]
Essentially, MetroTech is a sort-of real time Waze. MetroTech has devised a platform that, "creates real-time traffic information from any video stream and stores it in a data warehouse in the cloud where it can be analyzed and published via the web to applications, mobile phones, and connected vehicles."
Pledge Your Bets is a Tampa, Florida based company with two founders, Michael Lindemuth and Ken Klatt. Their goal with Pledge Your Bets is to help non-profits engage with young donors by making the giving process a fun process. Charities already host challenges and casino nights for more effective, engaging fundraising events. When donors are [...]
SafelyStay is doing for the vacation rental industry what PayPal did for eBay. That is, adding an element of trust into the equation.
Another App being displayed at One Spark this year is the Pocket Promoter. The Tampa, Florida based project was founded by a team of four, three of them with over 15 years in development experience and one a financial accountant for over 5 years. Their product is aimed at bars, nightclubs, and their patrons. The [...]
On Sunday, March 30th, Coursera launched its first Android application. Coursera has developed a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) that, "combines mastery-based learning principles with video lectures, interactive content and a global community of peers, offering students from around the world a unique online learning experience."
HI-FI Social Network is another app we plan on checking out this year at One Spark. The Ponte Vedre, Florida based company has high hopes that their app will become one of the next big things. The #hashtag is the new language of today’s mobile generation, yet the current single-channel newsfeeds of todays’ social networks [...]
Bruno Francois had a really exciting trip to the Shark Tank when he presented his company Cycloramic (Egos Ventures) to the sharks on January 31st. It doesn't happen often but Francois' technology that uses an iPhone's gyroscope, cyclometer and vibrator to make the device turn around in a 360 motion, on it's own, wowed all [...]
It seems the original instant/daily deals app is back and going for a shot at standing on it's own two feet. Ben Tyson, the founder of Five & Fifty, is a serial entrepreneur, an adventurer and the youngest ever inductee into the Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship for his work on Google Earth, so he has some [...]
An idea that started many many years ago with handmade signs on grocery store bulletin boards has evolved over the years. Ebay was the first company to take the concept online, selling your old stuff. There are actually many place to sell your own stuff, but the problem with most of them is that they [...]
