Pitch for Chillweek
Company / App Name: Chillweek http://www.chillweek.com Twitter – chillweek What does it do? Local event discovery. Chillweek aggregates Facebook events and tells you what are the best events in your city. See statistics about events to decide which is the best fit for you. Add you own events trough our Facebook API. Why do we need it? Never miss cool events. The easiest way to discover the best events in your city. Being on vacation? Just check Chillweek and find what day and venue is the most popular for going out. Who is it for? People who want to discover ... → Read More
The Startup Pitch - Monday, October 7, 2013
Nielsen is set to publish its first report with TV rankings based on data from Twitter. The report, which comes out on Monday according to the Wall Street Journal, will look at the number of tweets about a show and the size of the audience that sees them. This is an important move for Twitter ahead of its IPO because it sees TV-related data as an important part of its monetization plans. Providing data about TV viewer engagement is also a key part of Twitter’s rivalry with Facebook, which has been trying to distract from the Nielsen-Twitter partnership by presenting ... 
There has been no shortage of leaks that claim to show off Google’s next Nexus smartphone (including this not-so-subtle nod from Google itself) over the past weeks and months, but we may have just hit the mother lode this weekend. The folks at Android Police have gotten their hands on a hefty, near-final draft of a 281-page service manual for the forthcoming device, which still technically bears the LG D821 model number. Really though, LG isn’t fooling anyone here. The document is chock full of diagrams and images (some of the device in various states of disassembly) that depict a ... 
Under-promise, and then under-under-deliver is the name of this game. The panel to vet the NSA set up by the President, and nurtured by current Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, is now on hiatus, its funds being frozen as part of the larger governmental shutdown. The panel, one of the President’s small promises that were given in the wake of sweeping leaks concerning the actions of America’s intelligence and surveillance apparatus, was to contain outsiders who could take a critical look at the actions of the NSA, investigating their legality and relationship to personal privacy. Instead, the panel was a ... 
Samsung’s new smart watch, the Galaxy Gear, may be getting poor reviews, but the commercial for the gadget is pretty sweet. The Gear is an Android-powered watch that connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth. It shows incoming notifications like calls and texts and lets you make and receive calls using a built-in speaker and microphone. For more details, check out our full Galaxy Gear review. Samsung’s Galaxy Gear commercial takes you through a timeline of fictional watches from shows and movies like “The Jetsons”, “Star Trek”, and “Dick Tracy”. The kicker seems to be that after decades of dreaming about ... 
“We usually just talk using Emojis.” This is what 18-year-old Hope R. told me in a recent conversation we had about how she and her friends use their phones to communicate with one another. The college freshman, who has had an iPhone for two years and admits she “only calls her parents on the phone and no one else, really”, explained that emojis sent alongside every text are the new normal. When I asked her about email, she dismissed it quickly. “I just use that for school.” Emojis, the smileys in Japanese electronic messages and web pages, earned their way into ... 
Even Samsung thinks its Galaxy Gear is anachronistic – at least if the commercials are to be believed. New ads for the new Samsung Galaxy Gear that popped up on the company’s official YouTube page this weekend are supposed to be an exercise in wish-fulfillment, but they end up showing off a company and design mentality that’s been stuck in the same gear for 20 or 30 years. As you can see, Samsung is pulling out nostalgia strings in these new ads, counting down the best sci-fi wrist-mounted communication tech from Star Trek, Knight Rider, The Jetsons and Might Morphin’ ... 