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When your company or organization is holding an event or sponsoring a conference, you want your visitors to engage as much as possible.  Lawrence Coburn is a cool person in technology who wants to help you keep attendees involved at all times by creating special mobile applications for your business’s events.  Coburn founded DoubleDutch in 2010 and since then has been helping companies get a better return on investment for every major social event or conference they hold.  Coburn’s company create apps that aim not only to help visitors get the most out of a company’s events, but also help each company optimize its events as much as possible in the future.  Coburn’s goal is to ensure that each event or conference a business holds provides as much benefit to the business as possible in the long run.  Read more »

One of the most convenient and attractive benefits of staying at a quality hotel when you’re in a new city is having a knowledgeable and helpful concierge to give you advice on the different restaurants, bars, and attractions nearby.  The ability simply to ask for the best sushi restaurant in London or the most affordable steakhouse in Miami when you’re staying there and receive a reliable answer quickly can greatly improve your quality of life.  However, there are plenty of situations outside quality resorts and hotels where you may want access to a concierge for advice.  What about when you move to a new city where you don’t know anyone locally, or maybe you’re backpacking across Europe and saving money by staying hostels rather than hotels?  That’s where cool technology product Agolo can help you.  Agolo is a website that uses crowd-sourced info from Twitter to give you informed advice and recommendations about places to go and things to do wherever you are.  Agolo is trying to be people’s personal concierge no matter where they’re staying. Read more »

If you’re like most people, you are keeping an eye on the national and global economy while increasingly enjoying science fiction-like technological advances.  These advances are creating “more wealth with less work.”  But where are the new jobs going to come from? Read more »

The term “Internet of Things” continues to evolve in meaning, just as innovators continue to create this connection of all objects, both physical and virtual, to a global network infrastructure.  Using increasingly more complex means of data capture and communication capabilities, engineers build new pathways in this global network.  One such engineering innovator is Taylor Alexander, founder of Flutter Wireless, an alternative to traditional Wi-Fi.  It’s what Taylor calls a “second network”.  The alternative to Wi-Fi can cover 100 times as great an area, using relatively little power.  Read more »

Are you one of those people who is gets frustrated when you go out to a restaurant and watch people at the surrounding tables diligently bent over their smartphone, communicating with anybody and everybody except the people across the table from them?  Julie Uhrman had similar frustration with gamers huddled alone over a smartphone instead of sprawled out together in front of a large monitor screen.  Julie remembers the good ole days when she and her sister came together to play video games around a TV set. Read more »

You may soon be taking something new with you on your smartphone as you head over to your favorite venue.  You won’t want to leave home without Belly card installed as an app.  Your reward for scanning your Belly card may be to arm wrestle the chef for a burger or make like a monkey and grab a free banana.  In addition to unusual loyalty rewards like these, your Belly app will also tell you where you can get a Belly Bite – a free taste of something special.  Belly gets to know its partner merchants and customizes the rewards with unique options for every business. Read more »

“Going where no device has gone before,” according to Leap Motion’s website, “the Leap Motion controller is an amazing device for the things you do every day and for things you never thought you could do.”  Some of those things you never thought you could do might include soaring in toward a planet at the furthermost corner of the galaxy, drawing, painting, or sculpting a 3D creation, or yes, even playing a virtual musical instrument.  For the serious science student, dissecting a frog or taking apart a human skull has never been so within your virtual reach!

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Our next generation of innovators is now sitting in classrooms designing with popsicle sticks or pipe cleaners.  Or perhaps they are at home with a Lego set, hard at work creating fun.  Or just maybe they are using littleBits, color-coded “bits” that snap together magnetically, building simple circuits and inventive projects complete with blinks and beeps. Read more »

Not unlike the trendy online dating services, FounderDating helps entrepreneurs find their match online.  You may have a specific idea you would like to work on, but don’t have the right partner. FounderDating helps connect you to a network of uber talented individuals with complementary skill sets.  Finding someone with a different background and skill set allows you to fit with the right cofounder. FounderDating is in the business of making these kinds of matches. Read more »

Poor user engagement can kill an enterprise’s website performance.  Even if your company’s website gets high traffic, you’re not getting the most out of your site if users aren’t staying and digging deeper into it.  Cool person in technology Murray Galbraith knows how much of a problem this is for many businesses.  That’s why he built Youneeq.  Youneeq tracks the behavior of users on your website and keeps them engaged by only showing them the content they want to see.  Galbraith’s company uses its data to filter your site’s content on an individual level so that when someone visits the site, they only see what interests them specifically. In theory, this increases engagement on the site and prevents users from leaving due to having to filter through too many things that they have no interest in viewing.  Read more »