Fret Friend: Play by Numbers Guitar Picking on Kickstarter
Yeah, I took up guitar when I was about 12 and could kind of strum my way through “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” I left …
LegalTech 2016: Lawyers Meet IT, Fun Ensues
The last time I was at LegalTech, there was still a healthy business digitizing paper documents. At the event I just attended, legal IT has …
Quadrofoil Ramps Up Production
Happy 2016! My usual excuse for not blogging more frequently on TvB is that I’ve been busy on my other show. That’s still holds true …
Teleport: Virtual Nostalgia Project on Indiegogo
Does anyone remember the Mad Men episode where Don tells the visiting execs what the Kodak Carousel was all about? The Carousel was the height …
Itero: Pocket Watch Launches on Kickstarter
Itero disrupts the wearables industry with a notification-free gadget that’s purpose-built to continually show the time of day. Their display unit is based on light …
Brief Tour of Advertising Week 2015: Product Tribes and Thingification
I dropped in on Advertising Week’s big event last week to see what this latest generation of Don and Peggy types were up to. Unlike …
Spare Change App Feeds NYers
Yikes, I haven’t posted since half-past August! I’ve been busy over at my other show writing about, among other topics, threats to our personal data …
Lima: Secure Personal Cloud At Last
I’ve been busy over at my other show exploring insider data theft and IT sabotage. Thankfully my long awaited beta version of Lima showed up in …
Buddy: Family-Friendly Robot Launches on Indiegogo
As we all read one headline after another warning of the robot takeover of our jobs, I’ve discovered a more serious source of concern for …
Dandelion APIs For Your Knowledge Parsing Needs
Somewhere on my Internet journeys, I learned about Dandelion. It’s a platform for doing semantic analysis of text. Another words, software that has some reading …
SipSup: Photo Sharing Drinking Glass on Kickstarter
My blogging has been on vacation the last few weeks. I was away on holiday in southern Spain—biking the Andalusian countryside—and then after returning I …
TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015
I admit to spending little time at this year’s Disrupt, which was in town last week. It’s still a great event for startups that want …
Spring Fever, Kerberos, and TechCrunch Disrupt
I’ve been busy over at my other show these days so blogging at TvB has been put on a long hold. Part of my time over …
Quip: Cute Collaboration Software
After working in Microsoft-controlled environments for years and years, I’m painfully familiar with Redmond’s idea of collaborating. Write document, email Word document to co-workers, remember …
My Interview With the Privacy Guru
Blogging has been a little light at TvB because of my other show. Lately I’ve been delving into the security improvements slated for Windows 10—who …
Brief Chat with Robotbase’s Duy Huynh
Last week I talked to Robotbase’s founder Duy Huynh about his impressively capable Personal Robot. I was mostly interested in real-world use cases for this …
Trubrain: Nootropic Drink Startup
Nootropic is shorthand for mind or cognitive enhancing. Simple ideas always sound more mysterious when Greek-ified. Trubrain is an energy drink for the mind. But …
Pond5: Huge Source of Public Domain Pics and Videos
Another stock media service? Sure, but NYC-based startup Pond5 has a very large collection of free public domain photos and images. Some of this media can be found …
More Kickstarter Projects: Robotbase’s Personal AI-bot
Robotbase’s Personal Robot is the most ambitious project that I’ve seen so far on Kickstarter. If the pitch video of this mobile Siri-like bot is anywhere …
Interview with NYU’s Justin Cappos: Our Pathetic Password Protection
My interview is not here at TvB, but over on my other show at the Metadata Era. Professor Cappos is an Associate Professor of Computer …