What is the Business Model of FrontlineSMS: Medic? Interview with Co-Founder, Josh Nesbit
Josh Nesbit explains the business model that supports FrontlineSMS: Medic, the mobile phone platform providing health info in developing countries via SMS.
Upcoming Event: Social Enterprise, Financial Capital, Mobile Technology, & Innovation at DiasporaCamp 2010 in Washington, DC
DiasporaCamp DC 2010 brings together young Africans and people interested in entrepreneurship & innovation in Africa this weekend.
How Can Dance Clubbers Change The World? | Michel Smit On Sustainable Dance Club [VIDEO]
Michel Smit of Sustainable Dance Club shows how clubbers worldwide can change the world via technology that converts movement into energy.
Interview With Jennifer Sly, Founder of YouthAssets | On The Importance of Mobile & Google Maps in Swaziland, Africa
Jennifer Sly explains how she found the homestead of a young boy in Swaziland using Google Maps and her Google Gi phone.
Eventbrite for Causes | Interview w/ Julia Hartz & Kevin Hartz, Co-Founders of Eventbrite
In this week’s interview, I had the good fortune to meet up with Julia Hartz and Kevin Hartz, Co-Founders of Eventbrite, to learn about Eventbrite’s recent launch of their new product for non-profits, Eventbrite for Causes. In addition to talking about their newest product, Julia and Kevin discuss how social media, and specifically Facebook Connect [...]
How Social Media & Mobile Helps Haiti | Ushahidi, Samasource, CrowdFlower & FrontlineSMS
Update on May 10, 2010: “SMS shortcode 177 is now being used instead of shortcode 4636. #haititech” Bravo to the thousands of volunteers worldwide who are assisting with translating Creole mobile text messages to help people in Haiti following the devastating 7.0M earthquake that struck the nation on January 12. 2010. Many may not have [...]
How to Learn WordPress, PHP, Social Media and More via Live, Interactive Classes on the Web
Want to learn from successful entrepreneurs for free? Want to develop new technology skills in WordPress or PHP, or gain insights on social media marketing and other areas of technology? An amazing new start-up in San Francisco, eduFire, is helping people gain the insight they need to start a company, ramp up quickly in tech [...]
Interview with Jon Bischke, Founder of eduFire
We met up with Jon Bischke, Founder of EduFire, in San Francisco to learn about the launch of EduFire’s new Tech Channel, an online video learning platform that provides live, interactive video classes in social media, PHP, WordPress, and other tech areas. In this video interview, Jon talks about the new Tech Channel and tells [...]
Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder of Samasource & Lukas Biewald, Founder of CrowdFlower, On “GIVE WORK”, iPhone apps, & Refugees [VIDEO]
This is truly the hottest iPhone app ever! Samasource and CrowdFlower have teamed up to present Give Work, their new iPhone application. Give Work lets you support refugees in Dadaab, Kenya—the world’s largest refugee site—in minutes by completing short, on-screen tasks. In this video interview, Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder of Samasource, and Lukas Biewald, Founder [...]
Boyd Cohen, Co-Founder of 3rdWhale, On Green Living & iPhones
How can mobile smartphones like Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone promote sustainable and healthy living? Boyd Cohen, Co-Founder of 3rdWhaleMobile, met up with us this past week at Social Capital Markets (SOCAP09) to tell us about his company and show us the mobile apps his team has been developing for Greenpeace and other leading green [...]
