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Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger

Looking for the next great Internet startups


“Twitter track on steroids” announced by TweetMeme founder
If you follow Steve Gillmor you know he loved a feature that used to be in Twitter, that he called Track. It let you ask Twitter to shove you real-time info. It was turned off as Twitter tried to deal with its scale problem. But now Twitter is bringing back real-time streams. I’m using a pre-release [...]
Tour of SimpleGeo reveals why location services can’t get along
Last week I finally got to visit one of the companies that’s getting a lot of attention inside the location-based service world. No, it’s not Foursquare or Gowalla. It’s SimpleGeo, headquartered in Boulder, CO. But one thing I’m interested in is why all these services don’t share data (I wrote about that in Techcrunch recently). You [...]
This startup wants you to play with its balls
Last week in Boulder, Colorado, we saw a ton of cool startups but many of them didn’t make products consumers can go into a store and buy. GearBox, though, is selling robotic balls that will cost about $50. Now, what’s cool about a robotic ball beyond their opening pitch of “play with our balls?” Well, you use [...]
Behind the endless iPad photo book: Fotopedia Heritage
I love getting an in-depth look at cool new technology, but even better I love getting to know some of the great technologists that have done amazing things in the industry. This video has a little bit of both. Jean-Marie Hullot worked for years for Steve Jobs as CTO at NeXT and at Apple. He’s played [...]
Map Wars (visiting Bing’s imaging center)
Everytime I fly I look at who is sitting next to me and wonder “I wonder what he/she does?” Last week on the way to Boulder a guy was sitting next to me and he had a Dell laptop with Windows 7 loaded, and was doing Outlook email. I thought to myself “I bet he works [...]