Technology Pioneers 2013: World Economic Forum Names The Year's 23 Most Innovative Startups. Tendances web 2012. Yahoo Paid $20 Million For A 12-Week-Old Company And It Was A ... 10 business models that rocked 2010 - by @nickdemey ... Will the Next Zuckerberg Be a Designer, not a Hacker? Track record: This sketch from 500 Startups, a tech incubator, shows examples of technology companies whose founders included designers along with engineers. Facebook, Google, Apple: all companies that were started by hackers of one kind or another, grew fast, and changed the world. It’s a model that still motivates computer scientists and engineers who bet everything on their own tech startups.
But the next company to join that list of successes may be founded by a designer, not a hacker, if the backers of a new Silicon Valley investment fund are right. The Designer Fund will focus on companies led by Web and product designers rather than solely engineers, in hopes of creating more tech startups that specialize in compelling user experiences. The fund is being put together by 500 Startups, a company that acts as an incubator for early-stage tech companies, trading seed funding and mentoring for a stake in a venture.
Tech Crunch : Kiip, un nouveau modele publicitaire sur mobile pour les jeux videos. The Search Engine That Talks Back to You " OWNI.eu, News ... We are incredibly attuned to the idea that the sole purpose of our technology is to solve problems. It also creates concepts and philosophy. We must more fully explore these aspects of our inventions, because the next generation of technology will speak to us, understand us, and perceive our behavior. It will enter every home and office and intercede between us and much of the information and experience we receive. The design of such intimate technology is an aesthetic issue as much as an engineering one.
We must recognize this if we are to understand and choose what we become as a result of what we have made. In his work on ‘Responsive Environments’, Myron Krueger explored the relationship between the human and the machine in art and virtual reality by putting forth questions of interactivity and how content is in flux with its medium and its spectators. Qwiki Founder: how I launched a talking search engine - HuffPo. The tech world has been buzzing ever since judges at TechCrunch Disrupt named Qwiki 2010's most disruptive company.
Qwiki's on-stage demonstration at September's contest between 27 rising startups not only earned the company a $50,000 cash prize, but it has quickly become a YouTube sensation. The startup's first product is a multimedia answer to Google's flagship text-based search tool. Users type in a search term and Qwiki pulls information from the Web and narrates the results in a computerized voice while displaying related media. Last week, Qwiki's CEO and co-founder, Doug Imbruce, came by The Huffington Post to show us how Qwiki works. Imbruce, 27, also explained how he convinced the "father of the internet search" to join on as co-founder and CTO, and why entrepreneurs should "avoid venture capital firms at all costs. " Huffington Post: How does Qwiki turn information into an experience?
Watch Doug demonstrate the tool here (Video reporting by Ben Craw): HP: Who created the technology? What Facebook Billionaire's Startup Investment Bought Him ... Qwiki. Qwiki Just May Be The Future Of Information Consumption. And ... In the late 1980s, Apple created a few concept videos about a device they called the Computer Knowledge Navigator.
These videos came up recently when Apple unveiled the iPad, because the machine in the videos is a tablet computer. But that’s about all the iPad has in common with this conceptual device. Instead, a new startup launching at TechCrunch Disrupt today, Qwiki, is much more like the futuristic computer in the videos. To be clear, Qwiki isn’t a piece of hardware. You can also click on sub-topics or related topics to access more Qwikis with vast amounts of other information. Qwiki was created by Doug Imbruce and Louis Monier. Qwiki has currently raised $1.5 million in funding. Feedback and Q & A by expert judges Jeff Clavier, Gina Bianchini, Jim Lanzone, Ted Maidenberg, and Chris Sacca.
GB: What’s the usecase? Qwiki: Don’t call Qwiki search with a voice. TM: The potential for international audiences is exciting. JC: Every person you’ve shown this to has come up with a new use case. 10 European Startups To Watch in 2011 - TNW Europe. When you hear Silicon Valley discuss the European startup scene it’s often negatively. Some say that the investors aren’t brave enough, some say the entrepreneurs aren’t bold enough. Whether there’s any truth in these accusations or not, the fact is that there are startups across Europe that are brimming with original ideas and creativity. Following on from our 10 Exciting European Startups from 2010, here are 10 startups to look out for in 2011.
Pearltrees Visitors to the LeWeb conference last month couldn’t have failed to spot Pearltrees. Pearltrees makes organising groups of links to content incredibly easy. Recent additions to the service include real-time group collaboration and a touch-screen based interface which will be ported to the iPad soon. Planely The idea behind Planely is a certainly niche one, but the Danish startup could well be onto something that frequent air travellers will love.
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