It’s time again for the Beta Summit at the Austin Innotech Conference. This is the second year that I’ve had the pleasure of hosting this event, and we’ve got some great companies that are going to show you some early stage, or recently launched technologies.

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Steve Odom, Founder and CEO of Gelato. Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company? Gelato is a new online dating service that imports what you’re doing at Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Pandora and other services to build your dating profile. It’s about finding the right dates based on what they are actually doing, instead of some carefully crafted, static profile that sounds like all the rest. For example, on [...]

A slew of innovative companies are presenting today at the DEMO Conference in San Diego. One that caught our eye is the Austin-based ge.la.to; it’s a free dating site that takes online dating to a whole new level and that makes Match.com and eHarmony.com look archaic. Users create a dating profile – in just two minutes – that’s distributed across a myriad of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Last.fm.