It was another great night at 18th Web Innovators Group. I have not heard of an actual count but it was easily the largest turnout yet. My favorite demo from the main 3 presenters had to be Totspot but Zeer and WebNotes both look like promising startups. Of the side demonstrations, it was great to [...]

Mark your calendars, July is now the web networking month for Boston area. It marks the return of the several premier tech events including schmooze-fest TECH Cocktail Boston 2, PodCamp3 Boston and the uber Boston web 2.0 event – WebInno18.

One of the local tech blogs that I have in my RSS reader (Google) is Jay Meattle’s Datum – its a great blog to add to yours. He just announced that he is moving from Compete.com to local start-up Lookery – a social media advertising play. Good luck Jay – I’ve enjoyed your Datum and [...]

The past 24hrs have had a few great announcements for the Boston area tech industry including funding, site launches and new feature announcements. Here is a quick run down of the events. Invoke Solutions Grabs 7M – First reported in the BBJ, on Xconomy and now TechCrunch, Waltham, MA based online and mobile research firm [...]

Over the past year since it’s launch, the finetune service has amassed over 1.2 million listeners and almost 2 million songs to their social music service. Now the Newton-based start-up is hoping to extend their reach by launching a Facebook version of their “social soundtrack” service allowing users to access the site through their Facebook [...]

It looks like it will be a busy week after all.  The big news from around the web is that Enpocket, the Boston-based mobile advertising company will be scooped up by Nokia!  Founded in 2001, enpocket is a mobile marketing, personalization and advertising platform for the wireless space that has produced thousands of campaigns for [...]

What a week to get bogged down at work and pass over some key happenings in the world of the local technology!  Quite a helping of tech news was served up last week including some key funding and IPO announcement, beta launches and a bit of potentially bad news for Eons. The Boston web 2.0 week started strong [...]

Timing is everything! Early last week I sat down to work on my “work assignment” and put together the Boston Video Game Round-Up. What I did not know was that it would have been great timing to finish and post it last week to coincide with the mid-week Hiawatha Bray article on Boston .com covering the Boston video game space.