Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Arrington the king of tech blogs announced that he would be building an internet connected touchpad he would call the CrunchPad. Today he announced the ‘end’ of the CrunchPad in a post titled, “The End of The CrunchPad“. The project was ambitious for the lawyer turned blogger, but admirable. The net/net of the story [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
If you are like millions of Americans you will head to the mall tomorrow to take advantage of all of the holiday sales. Of course, Black Friday doesn’t have to be for suckers. Make sure you bring along ShopSavvy. ShopSavvy can help you determine if you are getting a good deal. If ShopSavvy shows a [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Obviously I have been busy promoting ShopSavvy for the iPhone and my posting has suffered. I will be back in the game in December. Anyway, in the meantime I could use some help with the promotion. If you have a blog or website and can spare a few pixels we would love it if you [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
We have been working on ShopSavvy for more than a year. Initially released on Android a year ago we finally released our iPhone version last week. Yesterday we went into Best Buy and watched more than 20 people try to scan barcodes with ShopSavvy. We learned a lot! Why didn’t we do this a week [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Video I took of ShopSavvy users at Best Buy (more details here):
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Last week we were notified by Best Buy that we exceeded the cap for their product API. ShopSavvy is the FIRST remix partner to exceed the usage caps (despite the fact that we have tried to filter and cache queries to reduce load). When we got the call from Best Buy we were a little [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Last week I jumped on a plane and headed to Mountainview (Microsoft Campus) to present at the Under the Radar Mobility Conference. ShopSavvy was head-to-head with very cool iPhone applications from around the country. Guess what? With a perfect score from the judges ShopSavvy came out on top. As the winner of the ‘best app [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Entrepreneurship is rocking in Dallas this weekend. As many of you know we hosted Startup Weekend Dallas this weekend. Mike Orren has the full story here. This evening six startups debuted including: 1-800-LAW-GUNS is a legal referral system that uses a telephone system to match people who need a lawyer with lawyers available to talk to [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We still have spots available. The event starts tonight at 6PM (you can’t be late). Register here: Dallas Startup Weekend. We are hosting Startup Weekend Dallas the weekend of November 20th - 22nd at our offices in the INFOMART. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Debbie Landa, the CEO of DealMaker Media called me a couple of weeks ago and invited me to present ShopSavvy at the Under the Radar conference being held tomorrow in Moutainview, CA. Back in 2006 I presented Fancast and we were awarded ‘Best in Show’ and the ‘Peoples’ Choice’ awards. The contacts we made at [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Before I get started, here is the download link: http://bit.ly/shopsavvyiphone. MG over at TechCrunch beat me to this post, but the story about how we got ShopSavvy on the iPhone is worth telling. First, the good news is that ShopSavvy is now available for the 2G, 3G and 3GS iPhone (of course we have been [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Rylan and I have been thinking about what we want to work on this weekend and I thought I would share it with you. Basically, we want to create a shared product wishlist system - i.e. OpenWishLists. I won’t go into great detail, but if you are interested in lifestyle registries or product wishlists come [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
It was recently announced that over $2,000 in cash will be given away to the top teams at Startup Weekend Dallas. The prizes will be determined by community vote and some panelists. Register here for Startup Weekend Dallas.
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I want to try to have a Jelly tomorrow here at the office. We need to do work on Startup Weekend and I would love to just hang out with some entrepreneurs. What do you think? Come in around 9AM? We can stop at around 4PM and head downstairs to the bar. So what is a [...]
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Data extracted from 500 million Twitter messages was released today by a tiny Texas startup company that forward-looking geeks have been watching for a year. Austin-based Infochimps announced this afternoon that it is now selling two important and very large sets of Twitter data . Limited samples of the data are available for free and a third, most important, set of data still won't be ready for a...
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