Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Bradley Markham, founder of TweetTV. They’ll be pitching at the Social TV Summit in New York this week. Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company? tweetTV (www.tweet.tv or www.tweetTV.com) is real-time social TV. It’s part TV discovery tool and part TV communication platform. We’ve created a real-time, localized TV Guide that helps users discover what to watch on their TV by ranking currently airing programs based on their [...]

Mass Relevance today announced that it has been selected by Twitter (blog post) as the first curation partner officially licensed to re-syndicate Twitter content. Content publishers can now work directly with Mass Relevance to publish and display syndicated Twitter content, as well as directly monetize the content through sponsorships or direct response. Through this partnership, companies will be able to move beyond engagement and create new revenue streams around curated and integrated experiences into TV, [...]

Location-aware software is largely just a novelty right now, but over the next year will greatly impact entertainment, news, and even physical goods. Why you should get in now, or get left behind.

I don’t like Twitter. I’ve never been coy about that. When it first launched, I thought, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” When it exploded in use, I thought, “This too shall pass.” When Ashton Kutcher sent a picture of his wife’s ass to the world, I thought, “We have reached the point of no return.” And yet, here we still are.

Our friends at Twitter rolled out their much-anticipated Lists feature to all users today. The new capability is very useful for finding and following users in certain verticals or categories, and we think that it is reasonable to expect an explosion in list-making over the weekend. ReadWriteWeb has a great piece on Lists, which includes their 10 favorites thus far. In honor of the new feature, we here at Austin Startup and Startup District have [...]