Startup Timeline: Spotify
From a tiny beta version that was only available to select European countries, Spotify is now the world's most valuable music streaming services of all time. Here's how this startup made its empire. This week Spotify launched its new service partnering with PS3 and...
Tampa MakerCon
The innovation of Tampa Bay will be featured this year at the MakerCon—is a community festival celebrating the DIY (Do It Yourself) Inventive Spirit, held each spring, and is a recognized Satellite Event of the USA Science & Engineering Festival and National...
SkreensTV – the Future of TV
No, you (probably) haven't heard of it before, but even if you weren't reading this article right now, I'd wager it wouldn't be long until you heard about it elsewhere. You most likely have experienced the problems that SkreensTV proposes to solve. Please, don't try...
The Art of Snowden
Is Edward Snowden an artist? Apparently some circles say so, as next month an installation will feature the smashed MacBook Air and Western Digital hard drive that once contained leaked NSA documents. The accidental work of art will be put up in the Victoria and...
MOSI Exhibits: P1
This week we stopped by MOSI to check out some of their exhibits. Of course, we were not disappointed... I mean, I don't know how you could be. It's a wonderland of excitement and innovation over there. You mean I get to learn while playing? sign me up! We had a lot...
Top 10 WordPress: Plugins
WordPress is an amazing and powerful content management system (CMS) that offers a lot of customization and can be used to make almost any type of website. Although WordPress is very powerful, it can be very overwhelming to the average user. Fortunately, it has tons...
FireChat and GreenStone
FireChat is living up to its name—and is blazing a trail in the app world for people who want to communicate off the grid. It has more than 3 million users, partly thanks to SXSW exposure, and partially due to world wide social unrest in places such as Iraq and...
Internet of Things: Facebook
As if Facebook wasn't already a whole ecosystem of functionality, from social network to advertisement engine to mobile payments and more, it is now jumping on the wagon of the Internet of Things—specifically to power your smart devices. At the F8 developer...
Top 10 WordPress Themes of 2015
Web design is getting more and more complicated these days, which is making it more difficult for the less technically savvy user to get started. Thankfully there are plenty of tools out there such as WordPress that allows users who aren’t website gurus to create a...
Cyberbullying and the Currency of Shame
This week in Vancouver, Monica Lewinksy delivered a powerful speech on the effects of cyberbullying, highlighted by her high-profile affair with former President Bill Clinton. "You probably recognize me from rap songs. Yes. I am in rap songs. Almost 40 rap songs," she...
The Digital Hug App
It's not the same as physical, human contact, but the new HUG app is an interactive mobile application that sends your loved ones hugs from a distance, anywhere in the world. The idea came from brothers and former Google employees, Petter and Kaspar Prinz who realized...
Katch, for Meerkat, for Twitter
Katch is the newest app that's exploded on the scene since Meerkat kit the big leagues at this month's SXSW festival. What is Meerkat? Meerkat is a live-streaming app that allows you to create and broadcast video footage from a live Twitter feed. Those videos can be...