One of the key sites to emerge of the last few months in helping the DC tech community organize has been DCTechEvents.com. DCTechEvents.com is the brainchild of Ross Karchner; he launched the site in May of this year as a means of alleviating his frustration in keeping up with the ever-growing number of events […]
Entries from October 2007
DCTechEvents.com - Keeping up with the DC tech scene
October 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment
New Roundup - 10/31/07
October 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Flexcar (backed by Steve Case’s Revolution LLC) merges with Zipcar. (Press release)
Brijit Launches (Washington Post, RWW)
Tags: News
Searchles adds Video Remixing
October 29th, 2007 · No Comments
DC startup Searchles has added a new feature called Searchles TV Remash, which lets users clip and splice pieces of YouTube videos to create new content.
The new service takes a bit of time to get used to, but once you do, it’s relatively easy to edit a video. By dragging and dropping videos into […]
Tags: Search · Video · startups
Startup Weekend DC: HolaNeighbor!
October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Startup Weekend, which “recruits a highly motivated group of small business entrepreneurs to build a community and company in a weekend,” came to DC this past weekend for the first DC Startup Weekend. The best and brightest of the DC tech community gathered at Viget Lab’s new offices in Falls Church to create […]
Tags: Social Networks · Web · startups
New Roundup - 10/25/07
October 25th, 2007 · No Comments
PatentMonkey becomes Patents.com (TechCrunch)
Tags: News
News Roundup - 10/23/07
October 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Stories on the dc tech beat for October 23, 2007:
JackBe raises $9.5 million for mashups in the Enterprise (press release, TechCrunch)
Revolution Health lays off 60 (Washington Post)
Blackboard launches EduGarage, a resource for developers of e-learning applications.
Tags: News
October 2007 Grubstake Breakfast Recap
October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
DC’s tri-annual Grubstake Breakfast took place this morning, with four local companies presenting. While three of those were non-web based companies (biotech, cell phones), one company, mpowerplayer, looked interesting.
Mpowerplayer “helps mobile gaming publishers more effectively market and sell their games. Inefficiencies in existing mobile merchandising and monetization are widely acknowledged as a high-profile problem by […]
Welcome to DC Tech Beat!
October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
Over the past few months, the tech scene in the DC area has really been changing. For many years, I’ve been attending “Web 2.0″ events in DC, Maryland and Virginia, and until recently, they’ve been slow. Lately, things have been changing. The community has been growing and coalescing; while a year ago, a “Web 2.0″ […]
Tags: Administrivia
