Posts Tagged "hot potato"

Video: Hot Potato releases new site, iPhone app and API

Posted by Vadim Lavrusik on Mar 15, 2010 in Featured, Multimedia, News, Videos | View Comments

Hot Potato, a location-based social platform, released a fresh version of their site, a new iPhone application and an API for developers to play with Thursday – just in time for South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas this year.

We sat down with Justin Shaffer, the founder and CEO of Hot Potato, at their Brooklyn offices last Thursday, to talk about the new release and where the company is headed.

Podcast: Interview with The Deal’s Mary Kathleen Flynn

Posted by Alexander Hotz on Jan 28, 2010 in Multimedia, News, Podcasts | View Comments

 

 NYC 3.0 Podcast #2 - Interview with Mary Kathleen Flynn [15:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Mary Kathleen Flynn at last December's Obliterati Party. Photo: Nick McGlynn,

In December, Alexander Hotz spoke with Mary Kathleen Flynn, the Senior Editor/Senior Video Producer for The Deal. Flynn has been covering the tech scene in New York City for over 20 years. In the podcast she shares her insight about industry and its future.

Also check out Mary’s list of the most interesting startups in NYC:

1.) Boxee

2.) Foursquare

3.) Square

4.) Hunch

5.) Hot Potato

6.) Beta Works

7.) SecondMarket

8.) Gilt Groupe

9.) Blip.tv

10.) Outside.in

Video: Fred Wilson talks trends, advice for startups

Posted by Vadim Lavrusik on Jan 19, 2010 in Featured, Multimedia, News, Videos | View Comments

We sat down with Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures to talk about the trends he’s seeing in tech and the trends he’d like to focus on in the coming year. We also picked his brain about advice he would give to startups.

Fred Wilson Intro: The key words that we look for, that we invest around, are mobile, social, global, playful, intelligent and probably also immediacy. Immediacy is another time for the real-time web, things that are happening right here right now.