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Google’s I/O developer conference is over, and we’ve learned quite a bit: Devs just can’t get enough of Google Glass, design is a bigger focus for the company than ever before, and Larry Page is kind of sad about a lot of things. It’s been a whirlwind ride, but honestly we’re just glad to be out of San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Check out our highlights from I/O below: Google I/O 2013 keynote live blog Larry Page is sad, hopeful, and frustrated in his heartfelt Google I/O speech Google Glass apps are easy to develop, but brutally difficult to design well What hardware is Google making after Glass? Mary Lou Jepsen knows What’s next for Google Glass: More units, more apps, more colors How cognitive science and user empathy powered Google’s design breakthrough OK, Google, your conversational search is awesome as hell Maps rebuilt from the ‘ground up,’ iPad version coming this fall Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools Major design overhaul makes Google+ look a whole lot like Pinterest Google announces its Spotify competitor, Google Play Music ‘All Access’ — ‘radio without rules’ Hangouts, the best part of Google+, gets standalone iOS, Android, and Chro Filed under: Business, Dev, Mobile Big Data and Predictive/Real-time Analytics startups: Are you looking to jumpstart development & accelerate market traction? Sign up for the SAP Startup Focus program to receive technology, support, resources and community to help you develop new applications on SAP HANA, a cutting edge database platform. Get started here, and enter promo code “VB2013? on the form. .blurb-cat-dev hr { margin: 10px 0 10px 0; }

Tumblr wants more. The popular and fast-growing blog service is mulling a $1.1 billion acquisition offer from Yahoo. But while the massive blogging powerhouse only pulled in $13 million in revenue in 2012, and raised $125 million at a lower $800 million valuation, Tumblr CEO David Karp feels $1.1 billion is too little. I guess it depends what yardstick you use. If you look at an Instagram-style deal, which was originally around a billion dollars but eventually, due to Facebook’s stock market woes, came in a little lower, he might be right. But that deal had one thing going for it that Tumblr does not. Instagram chief executive and co-founder Kevin Systrom had multiple suitors, while Tumblr only has one. That’s because, as Forbes reveals, Yahoo is currently negotiating under a lockup. So even though Facebook, Microsoft, and potentially other acquirers are interested, Yahoo has at least a period of time in which it is the only one on the dance card. In addition Tumblr, which famously hates advertising and only started trying to make money after five years in existence, is in a bit of a pickle, as its $125 million in funding is running out, giving the service only a few-month window in which to raise a new round or find a sugar daddy. That’s likely a strategic error on Karp’s part, who has said that advertising “really turns our stomachs.” Tumblr only started to get serious about ad revenue in mid-2012, and is only planning to roll out its third major ad product — pay per view, in which you pay to get others to view — sometime later this year. Being more aggressive on monetization would have given Tumblr more runway to make a leisurely decision about an acquisition, or made the company more attractive to investors if it tried to raise another funding round. There’s no question, however, that Tumblr is a traffic powerhouse. It ranks ninth on the list of most-popular U.S sites, and with 217 million global monthly unique visitors and 74 million million posts each and every day, the site is both huge and fast-growing. Few companies could monetize its 108 million blogs, 51 billion posts, and 16 billion monthly pageviews as well as Yahoo. So while Yahoo is likely to come up a little, Karp could pick worse partners. And he might do well to finalize a deal sooner rather than later. Filed under: Business, Deals, Entrepreneur, Media, Social

Cameron Peron is VP Marketing at Newvem When was the last time you went to a tradeshow? How did you measure the impact that the event had on your business or personal goals?  Attending tradeshows is more than just cruising the aisles and looking and exhibitor booths. Understanding the inherent mechanics of trade shows, executing a well-defined game plan, and measuring the results in your professional life can make the difference between a useless visit and a game changing trip. And, of course, going to interesting shows and great places more and more often. Attending a trade show is an investment We exhibited at AWS re:Invent in November 2012, making a major investment to meet Amazon Web Services (AWS) users in order to help them improve and optimize their cloud infrastructure. For an attendee the ticket price cost $1,000 just to set foot in the door. Put airfare, hotel room, and a decent expense budget into the picture and an attendee could easily spend $4,000 – $5,000.  For a show attendee justifying an investment like this, both in terms of hard cash and time, is hard if not impossible to achieve.  Especially when managers and other staff see an empty desk for a few days. Or is it? Break down the expectations from the event and consider an active game plan (both during and after the event) to measure the time and money ROI the event cloud potentially deliver. Let’s take a closer look. There are two main areas that a trade show can show a valuable impact on the company: knowledge and deals. Gaining knowledge Many tradeshows offer breakout sessions to learn from experts in a specific field of work, industry or vertical.  Think of an accelerated course to capture knowledge that could improve your ability to solve specific issues, learn best practices, and improve workflow analysis and overcoming issues as they come along. But breakouts are not limited to your direct line of work. For example if you’re on the sales and marketing side, attending breakout sessions of an IT, cloud, or IT operations event can help improve your knowledge of the everyday flow your customers and prospect are experience. Leveraging this knowledge cloud have a direct impact on your day to day operations (e.g., improving cloud availability for DevOps) or give you added insights on how to engage your customer base (e.g., understanding what factors are important for DevOps to address when improving availability). Deals, deals, deals The objective here is to show measurable value in starting new deal flow, accelerating conversions in the pipe, and improving value from existing business. There are a few methodologies to include in your in-event game plan to ensure you allocate the optimal amount of focused time: Reach out to everyone related in your industry and start booking meetings Take an assertive approach and book 15-30 min time slots based on the objective you want to achieve.  Don’t stop until you get an answer.Total time investment: 50% Book sessions with exhibitors in advance This is important. Randomly cruising show floor booths is not a preferred strategy unless you’re open to discuss partnerships. Consider that each booth potentially represents months of planning and budget negotiation, meaning that each staff member at the booth is focused on building new business themselves.   Booking time in advance will ensure a decent amount time to carry out your main objective rather than randomly pulling someone out of their booth.Total time investment: 40% Cruise the show to understand the landscape. Some of your time must be invested in cruising the show to better understand the landscape, identifying potential partners, keeping tabs on competitors (both future and current), and staying in touch with associates.Total time investment: 10% Understanding the underlying mechanics of a trade show and putting the right game plan to harvest the value at the show — and execute when you return to the office — can help you win budget each and

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Company / App Name: Chataroo.com http://chataroo.com What does it do? Website owners can manage customer support with one solution. Live chat, Ticketing Help Desk, and Visitor Tracking. Why do we need it? Engage customers to improve their satisfaction and sales. Reduce support issues. Chataroo allows you to manage your support services more efficiently, treating each and every incoming request as a unique, traceable ticket or in live chat. Who is it for? Any website that sells or offers something. Chataroo’s Incredibly Easy and Affordable! Both service teams and customers love to use Chataroo. What makes it stand out from the crowd? For customers who want immediate help, nothing satisfies and converts quite like a Live Chat Support. With one click on your website, customers begin a real-time exchange with an Operator. What’s next? We plan to offer live screen recording of website visitors. Website owners will be able to see \”video\” of what their visitors are doing on their website. Pitch Video

Compath is your personal navigation assistant, which can help you to find the right place even when your device is offline. Just save your current position in Compath and you'll never miss this place. Compath will direct you using all available navigation hardware on your device including GPS, compass, cellular and Internet. Features: • Low power consumption • Two different designs for day and night • Offline navigation • iPhone 5 compatible • Minimalistic and clear interface Compath will be indispensable while walking through unfamiliar cities, it will help you to find your car in the parking or show you the way to the point of destination.

This is a modern take on the classic board game - Guess Who. It is a two-player picture based guessing game, packed with the latest celebrities, where users pick a mystery face and have to take it in turns to try and work out who their opponent has picked. Users can play anonymously against other players, or they can connect to their Facebook account and play against their friends. The game is free to download and play, and will also earn virtual tokens from the games they have won, which they can collect and use to unlock more features. How it works: To begin, the user must select their card, which their opponent will try and guess. They have the option of playing against a random player or against their Facebook friend. If they play against a random player, they will first choose from a selection of current celebrities. If they play against a Facebook friend, they can both pick from one of their mutual friends. The players will ask each other yes/no questions back and forth, in an attempt to eliminate some of the faces on the board, until they are able to take a guess. The player can select from the questions embedded in the game, or they can make up their own. The player eliminates pictures from the board in accordance to the answers from their opponent. When the player thinks they know which card their opponent has, they can make a guess, the first player to guess their opponent's card is the winner. Benefits: The more games won, the more tokens they earned, which can be exchanged for badges. These can be used in several ways, including: 50/50 - The app will eliminate half of the cards, leaving the player with a better chance of guessing correctly sooner. Free Guess - Players can take guesses outside of their turn. More Celebrity Cards - Constantly updated with the most current and talked about celebs. Unlimited Games - Play as many games as you like at one time. Facial props - Modify the appearance of mutual Facebook friends with a hilarious range of props.

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