The Rice Alliance’s Austin Chapter will be hosting another great event on Tuesday November 9th. This time the topic is “The New World of Gaming,” and they’ve lined up some killer speakers for the panel discussion. Tickets are going fast so go get yours right now.
The New York Times’ Susanna Hamner will be moderating the discussion, which is headlined by Austin’s own gaming legend Richard Garriott, along with Rodney Gibbs, CEO of Ricochet labs (the makers of the oh-so-addictive Qrank).
We last reported on Riptano’s launch in April – and just a few months later the company has announced they already raised a tidy $2.7MM in a Series A.
Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, while Sequoia Capital and Jason Calacanis also got in on the action. John Vrionis of Lightspeed Venture Partners will join Riptano’s board. The company said they will use the cash to hire developers and further build out their business team to better serve their customers.
How many times have you been at a technology conference, you meet a nice guy or gal, and chat for a bit. When it gets to the point that you’re explaining what y’all do for a living, the other person says: “well, I just do the boring enterprise stuff…”
I’m happy to report that I didn’t hear this line even once at DEMO this last week in Santa Clara. On-stage there was an entire enterprise session that didn’t once apologize for being “boring enterprise technology.” In fact, it was quite the opposite. There was a great deal of pride in the enterprise segment.
Linux Against Poverty is hosting their 2nd annual Install Fest tomorrow at Union Park, which will conclude their drive to put computers in the hands of Austin area children who currently don’t have a computer or internet access at home.
Plots for world domination typically fail because the plots themselves just aren’t scalable. But with the launch of Facebook’s Open Graph this week, there’s no doubt that they have some killer talent helping them scale the platform to own the rest of the web.
What you may not know, is that part of Facebook’s scaling effort has involved their use of the Apache Cassandra open source database. Other large sites including Twitter and Digg have made use of the open source technology, and the list keeps growing.
Entrepreneurs in the central Texas region have good reason to be excited this week. Not only has Austin been recognized repeatedly for the relative strength of its local economy in recent weeks, but on Monday, Austin-based Microventures launched its new site for peer-to-peer venture funding.
With all the recent tablet talk, we check in with Austin’s own tablet trendsetters, Motion Computing
Austin-based FeedMagnet launched into public beta late last week. The service pulls together feeds from your social media sites and presents them in a single stream. FeedMagnet also allows you to embed those streams directly onto your website. The public beta includes the basic, free service which limits the number of authors and search topics you can use, as well as how many updates they will pull per hour. The company is working on a [...]
‘Tis the season to stuff your virtual stocking. Here’s what Austin has to offer techies this holiday season.
This holiday season, let’s all give thanks for the blessings bestowed upon us by Silicon Valley. And thankfully, they’ve taken the lead in helping us pat them on the back for their generosity.
