Game startup Gendai Games is announcing today the launch of the open beta program for GameSalad Creator, an intuitive and easy to understand application that allows non-programmers to create and publish games to the web and iPhone. Since the quiet launch of their open alpha in February of 2009, Gendai Games has logged over a thousand unique alpha testers into their developer program. With the announcement of the open beta, Gendai Games is also releasing [...]
Ever wondered where you can catch live music, right now, within a couple miles of your location? Or maybe you’re in a strange city and don’t know the scene, but would like to know where you can listen to some hip-hop? Turn2Live is the website for you. The website launched at SXSW this week. At first glance, it’s a little rough, but it’s got promise. You can profile yourself and the types of music you [...]
It seems like I’ve been waiting forever for the beta launch of BuzzStream. Even worse, I see CEO Paul May and Chairman Jeremy Bencken talking about it at social events all the time. At the TechCrunch event in the Fall, Jeremy had a demo on his Dell Mini 9 that was just awesome. Thankfully, BuzzStream has finally arrived! The beta was launched last week at PubCon, and the company held a happy hour at Molotov [...]
Our friends over at TechDrawl sent a special correspondent to Accelerator, who just happens to be the daughter of the publishers and a UT student, Audrey Dyer. Since most of the web applications these days are aimed a young people, it was great to see the perspective of someone who is part of the target audience. Audrey did an extensive review of each company, and she made her predictions of the winners. For spring break [...]
Monday was the first ever SXSW Accelerator, and the roster was packed with 40% Texas companies, which I thought was pretty cool. I didn’t know that the rotating panel of judges was scoring the companies, but it’s a good idea to have the SXSW version of the DEMO God award. Despite the shortness of the 2-minute pitches, the judges had some really quality Q&A after the pitch with each company. After all the interactions, each [...]
The annual SXSW conference kicked off in grand style, as usual. Porter Novelli and the City of Austin teamed up to throw an event highlighting some of Austin’s top emerging technology companies, including BuzzStream, OtherInBox, Socialware, Bazaarvoice, OneSpot, and many more. Some lucky people were able to catch Mr. Spam, who is helping to protect your inbox from nasty unwanted messages. Based upon conversations that were overheard at this event, we should have some great [...]
I’ve got the WordPress app on my iPhone, so I hope to create some posts during SXSW with it. This is the point at which I wish the iPhone had a replaceable battery. I went through half my battery waiting in line for an hour to get my badge. So I missed Peter Kim’s session, which is really sad. So I took my sadness over to the former Club Paradox to help setup for BarCamp4, [...]
Today’s guest blogger is Thom Singer, the director of business development for vcfo. He is also the author of several books on the power of business relationships and networking. One of the most popular reasons that people site for attending an industry conference is for the “networking opportunities”. However, once they arrive at these multi-day events they often fail to make any important or lasting connections. This is unfortunate, as the other people who are [...]
If you haven’t checked out Do512.com you’re missing out on the best inside information on local Austin music. As you can imagine, when SXSW starts up these guys kick into high gear. If you register, you can get their Top 10 parties of the day email each day during SXSW. You can also build your own schedule if you’d like. You can share it with friends, or access it on your mobile phone. For an [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with the Larry Warnock, the Chief Executive Officer of Phurnace Software, Inc., an Austin-based provider of Java EE™ management tools . Phurnace is a member of the AustinEmerging100 and has previously been covered here on Austin startup. Phurnace is an interesting company here in Austin, having ties to both The McCombs School of Business, where the company won the Texas Moot Corp. competition, as well as the Austin Technology Incubator, where [...]
