It’s hard to believe the end of the year is here, which means that preparations are being made for the 2009 Silicon Hills poster. You’ve seen them all around town, and you’ve probably been given a few posters as gifts over the years. For 2009, a 5-foot version of the poster will be featured at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Approximately 35,000 of these posters get distributed each year. Your building and logo will be highlighted [...]
Small World Labs, an Austin-based provider of enterprise social media solutions and online community building expertise, today announced an agreement with the ProTech group of companies that will make Small World Labs software available throughout the United Kingdom. ProTech, a 12-year-old provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software used by the Professional Footballer’s Association, the Liberal Democrat political party, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Institute of Physics, the Royal British Legion [...]
Austin-based Moximity released a limited beta of their new mobile application on Thursday. The launch was celebrated at an amazing party at The Belmont after the TechCrunch Meet-Up. Moximity allows you to see restaurants, clubs, and other locations that are in close proximity to your location, and to broadcast your location to your friends via Twitter and Facebook. Moximity is also partnering with major music and film festivals to provide event details and to allow [...]
Earlier in the month we wrote about the public beta of AntStorm, and it seems to be going well. The company announced today that more than 2,500 trails have been created by registered users. AntStorm users share collections of their favorite links about a particular topic as “trails” on AntStorm and the major search engines. Groups of AntStorm users can also collaboratively find, recommend, annotate, and vote on the best links for a specific topic, exposing [...]
Members of the Austin technology community banded together to create Operation Turkey several years ago. The organization is a grass roots effort to feed thousands of homeless on Thanksgiving Day. Last year, they started a music event, the Austin Yam Jam, to raise awareness and funds. This year, the Yam Jam is “back for seconds” with another great event at Threadgills featuring Mingo Fishtrap, Carolyn Wonderland, Guy Forsyth, and porterdavis. It’s coming up Sunday, October [...]
Come meet up with us tonight, September 25, 2008 from 9:30 pm until 2 am at The Belmont. There’s much to celebrate within our tech community: Austin Venture’s raising $900 million for their investment fund, an 11 pm – midnight ACL preview with FameCast winner Autamata, and the launch of Moximity, the Austin-based startup which improves your social life by bringing your Facebook friends together with the restaurants, bars and pubs in town. Thanks to [...]
There will be a roundtable discussion on Thursday prior to the TechCrunch event. Your humble publisher will be on the roundtable, along with folks such as Andrew Busey, Brett Hurt, Jeff Dachis, Vinay Bhagat, and many others. Hope to see you there, or later in the evening at the TechCrunch Meetup.
This little gem showed up in my Twitter the other day. InformationWeek is hitting key cities, and seeking startups for their Startup City TV show. They claim to still have some spots available. If you want to promote your startup, check it out.
Challenge Games, Andrew Busey’s latest startup and the company behind the popular online fantasy game Duels and the new fantasy baseball and card collecting game Baseball Boss, announced it has secured $10 million in Series B funding. The round is being led by Globespan Capital Partners with participation from Series A investor Sequoia Capital as well as existing investors. This closely follows the $4.5 million the company raised a few months ago. “Challenge Games is [...]
On Networks, a creator and distributor of high quality short form video programming, announced today an original series aimed at young girls called Smart Girls at the Party. The show is created by and stars actor/writer Amy Poehler, and friends Meredith Walker, former senior producer for Nickelodeon’s Nick News, head of talent for Saturday Night Live, and Amy Miles, recording artist and performer, host of PBS children’s show LOMAX: Hound of Music. Smart Girls celebrates [...]
