About Us
Traveling Geeks is a consortium of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, authors, journalists, bloggers, technology innovators and influencers who travel to countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public to educate, share, evaluate, and promote new, innovative technologies. The initiative was founded by Renee Blodgett and Jeff Saperstein in 2008.
Trips are funded by sponsorships from corporations, organizations and governments. The first tour was sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a trip that successfully marked the proof of concept that could expand to other countries around the world.
Read MoreAnswers.com Unveils New Twitter Hoopoe Service
Answers.com Hoopoe, now in alpha, delivers instant instant to users who tweet their questions to @AnswersDotCom or include the hashtag #answersdotcom. Answers.com will search for a good match and offer a reply with a snippet and link to the full answer, if available.
People are spending more time communicating through Twitter and other social media, so it’s a perfect extension to Answers.com service on the web. Some example tweets might be:
• @AnswersDotCom What is Jim Carrey’s Twitter username?
• @AnswersDotCom – What caused the Eyjafjallokull volcano in Iceland to erupt?
• @AnswersDotCom Who is Ashton Kutcher?
Since its currently in alpha, they would love to receive feedback on the service, and for you to follow them on Twitter.TechCrunch covered the announcement and here’s a quirky, fun demo of the Hoopoe service on YouTube.
Memeburn Goes Live
I am a contributing blogger to the new site, which is particularly focused on telling the world startup news and tech entrepreneurs’ stories from the emerging market sector. Although Memeburn has a particular focus on emerging markets, it tracks innovation worldwide.
Vator Teams Up with WebsiteSpark on Cool Web Developer Competition
Additionally, they’ll get premium access to Microsoft’s new business leads pipeline, one year of free Windows Web Server hosting from WebsiteSpark Hosting Partner, a case study done of your business, co-produced with Microsoft, a featured Web Pro interview in monthly WebsiteSpark Newsletter, and consultation with a Microsoft marketing professional to talk about future business strategy.
For those not aware of the initiative, WebsiteSpark is a program that was launched last September. A sister program to Microsoft BizSpark, WebsiteSpark is for independent Web developers and designers, or small companies with fewer than 10 employees who do contract work and build client’s Web sites/Web apps, like an outsourced dev shop. WebsiteSpark provides these Web Pros with extremely low cost MS development tools, and new business leads – customers who need work done, who are passed to WebsiteSpark Web Pros.
WebsiteSpark is a three year program involving a $100 fee, which is payable upon program exit.
To enter the competition, join Vator TV and register your company and then get the word out for your friends, customers and fans to vote.
Catching up with Intruders TV in Europe
Geo-Loco Event: Social Media Week San Francisco
Magic Sauce Media, my newly branded gig, and Traveling Geeks are proud sponsors of the event, which will be held at 930 Montgomery Street, #301 in San Francisco. The event is part of a global Social Media Week conference, held simultaneously in six cities around the country.
The panel includes:
MG Siegler, Techcrunch
Robert Scoble, Rackspace
Jeremy Toeman, Stage Two Consulting
Matt Galigan, SimpleGeo
Tom Coates, Yahoo Fire Eage
Phonebooth 2.0
I was minding my own business, getting ready to interview someone, at LeWeb in the “Geek Pad” where Microsoft had given us an area to hang out and connect online, when I noticed Eliane had her Macbook Pro over her head. I didn’t see any rain, so I knew she wasn’t using it as an umbrella, and then I heard her speaking intimately to the Mac.
Since there are hardly any phone booths anymore, she had turned her Mac into a phone booth!
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Backstage Pass- David Spark
This is a Backstage Pass interview of David Spark, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
David Spark is a new media producer and consultant whose output includes Spark Minute, and he blogs at SparkMinute.com.
[The photo at left was taken at LeWeb in Paris, 2009, by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]
You can check David’s Cool and Not-so-Cool post, but in the video, to save time, I edited to focus on the cool!
Backstage Pass- Ewan Spence
This is a Backstage Pass interview of Ewan Spence, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
Ewan blogs at EwanSpence.com. He’s a blogger, author and writer based in Edinborough, Scotland.
[The photo at left was taken at LeWeb in Paris, 2009, by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]
Backstage Pass- Eliane Fiolet
This is a Backstage Pass interview of Eliane Fiolet, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
Eliane is cofounder of Ubergizmo. She was a co-organizer of the Traveling Geeks tour to Paris and LeWeb, 2009.
[The photo at left is by Rodrigo Sepúlveda-Schulz (CC)by-nc-sa.]
Backstage Pass- Frederic Lardinois
This is a Backstage Pass interview of Frederic Lardinois, conducted at LeWeb, in December, 2009.
Frederic blogs at ReadWriteWeb.
[The photo at left was provided by Frederic Lardinois.]
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