UnWired Nation: voice publishing
Unwired Nation’s CEO Indy Gill spent some time explaining to me ‘the world’s first voice publishing platform.’ The service, being unveiled here at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, allows any business - ecommerce sites, news and information services, social networks, et al. to reach opt-in mobile users at no cost. Their medium is the over […]
Retrevo
Vipin Jain, CEO of Retrevo talked to me about his service. Retrevo’s goal is to be the primary information source for household electronics. Their goal is to build a large community who sees Retrevo as a trusted, impartial source that can answer their ‘help desk’ questions quickly.
One of Retrevo’s goals is to reduce the […]
Live from Stanford Summit
Bambi Francisco, CEO of Vator.tv, speaks to the topic of ‘discovery’ at an early morning Stanford Summit session. The assembled panel agreed that discovery - of media content that matches the tastes of users - was not just about algorithms: indeed there are dozens or hundreds of algorithms in the public domain, dating back to […]
Stanford Summit kicks off
Tony Perkins (above) and Tom Byers kicked off the Stanford Summit tonight. Tony Perkins talked about ‘discovery’ on the web, a space he describes as wide open.
He also talked about old and new media brands extending into old and new forms. Another topic was green tech which is the #3 category for VC money, according […]