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Motorola droid vs incredible

Jun 3rd, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Cool Tech

I recently ordered four Droid Incredibles for myself and three employees last week. When the Fedex arrived I was more than a little surprised to unpack four Motorola Droid phones instead of the Droid incredible. In a panic I rushed to a nearby computer screen and Googled “Motorola Droid vs Incredible” for a prize fight [...]



Hootsuite Twitter Client

Jun 2nd, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Startups

Hootsuite is a twitter client that simplifies the tweet process for multiple accounts. It allows you to monitor your brand, customize your twitter experience and if schedule your tweets.
Hootsuite integrates well with ping.fm (which I’m a big fan of) and has its’ own shortened URL. My favorite features of the Hootsuite twitter client [...]



Y combinator get 8.25M for startups

May 23rd, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Startups, venture capital

Ycombinator continues to be a boon for startups and seed capital in general according to a recent blog post indicating that Y combinator landed another $8.25 million dollars to assist startups. The usual suspects were in this round as well with Sequoia Capital leading the charge and a few prominent angels from past ventures including [...]



Commercial real estate augmented reality

May 22nd, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: mobile Internet

ROFO has partnered with JUNAIO to create the first commercial real estate augmented reality mobile device application
Available now as a free app on the iPhone 3GS and coming soon to Android devices, junaio 2.0 (by Metaio) features a new Rofo commercial real estate channel, giving business owners instant access to complete information on available property [...]



Google building Chrome web store

May 19th, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: mobile Internet

Google is building the Chrome web store to compete with Apple’s soaring 200,000 plus app store. It was unveiled today at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco.
According to VentureBeat the Web store will be based on standard web technologies like HTML5 and Adobe’s Flash (a turf war on standards Apple [...]



Cheap code snippets for the masses

May 17th, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Web Design

I ran across a website called CodeCanyon this morning that offers snippets of php code html, javascript, ASP.net and JAVA at extremely reasonable prices. Unlike some of the free script websites and resources this php code is actually a quality resource for modern web development and php code snippets ranging in price from $2 – [...]



Importance of Networking

Apr 17th, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Social Networking

The importance of networking should be in the forefront of your mind in today’s market. People who networked effectively in the pre-recession economy are finding themselves spending less time unemployed than their non-networking counterparts in the current business climate. Entrepreneurs and former employees that attended networking events and focused on growing their Rolodex are reaping [...]



Fastest Growing Franchises for 2010

Feb 21st, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Startups

The top 10 fastest growing franchises in 2010 according to entrepreneur Six of the top ten are commercial cleaning services. Moral of the story is if you have to get your hands dirty at least get commercial rates for it.
In the current economic climate and the world of hard to get loans, franchises may [...]



DimDim web conferencing rock!

Feb 7th, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Cool Tech

The web conferencing open source software competes directly with webex and offers amazing value for the small business with the version 5 release. This is a completely browser based web conferencing system with nothing to download. According to their mission statement:

Dimdim offers a browser based web conferencing service based on the open source platform. [...]



Monster acquires Yahoo Hot Jobs

Feb 4th, 2010 | By Startup Addict | Category: Business Deals

Monster cobbles up Hot Jobs from yahoo for $225 million. Yahoo continues to unload declining or non-core assets to flush up its’ financial position. Yahoo appears to be focusing on a content portal only play and leaving certain verticals like search, jobs etc… to players link Microsoft and Monster. The Hot Jobs acquisition comes [...]