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A MegaPhone Labs Kind of New Year

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I first learned about Megaphone Labs’  DialPlay TV product last month at HTM. This startup turns a boring DTMF keypad from your cell phone into a remote control for TV games, surveys, and trivia contests.

The same idea of reading a massive number of  dialtones in real-time also works at sports venues with giant LED displays standing in for the family-room TV.

If you were at New York City’s Times Square to watch the ball drop, you would have witnessed MegaPhone’s software in action on a building-size screen.Continue reading

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Hoboken Tech Meetup: 1/17/11

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I’ve read many, many tech white papers sprinkled with the conventional bizspeak phrase, return on investment. But at Hoboken Tech Meetup last night, I came across a new metric, social return on investment or, in acronymese, SROI while listening to founder Malcolm Arnold discuss his company RubyNuby.

RubyNuby is a social good company that teaches Ruby on Rails programming to at-risk and disadvantaged youth. The startup matches teens with professional mentors, sponsors start-up competitions, and gets its youthful members high-paying jobs.

There were other startups with big dreams and compelling demos.  You should’ve been there!Continue reading