Gillmor Gang – John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Gillmor Gang on Facebook here Live Friendfeed chat during live show broadcast here Check out our sister show, G3, on Ustream here Read More

 For the tenth and final episode of Built in Brooklyn, we tried to do something a little different — instead of visiting another startup, we talked to the team at HappyFunCorp, a design and engineering firm that’s helped a bunch of local startups get off the ground. HappyFunCorp’s clients include New York City companies like Boxee, CoPromote, Paperless Post, and SimpleReach.… Read More

 The Gillmor Gang — David Weinberger, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. The first show of 2015 marks the return of New Clues, a dynamic updating of the famed Cluetrain Manifesto by two of the four, Doc Searls and David Weinberger. Read More

 Gillmor Gang – Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Live chat during the show recording is at http://friendfeed.com/stevegillmor/15bb3b9c/gillmor-gang-live-friday-01-09-15-recording-at Gillmor Gang on Facebook Our sister show, G3, on Facebook Read More

 If you’re a fan of craft beer, you might be tempted to try homebrewing — if only it wasn’t (to quote my colleague Ryan Lawler) “a pain in the ass.” Startup PicoBew has built a machine called Zymatic that should make the process a lot easier, automating the brewing process and making it more consistent. PicoBrew’s Greg White even pitched it (half-jokingly,… Read More

 Facebook has a acquired QuickFire Networks, a TC Disrupt 2014 Battlefield contestant that built a custom hardware and software platform for reducing video file sizes and upload times. The Wall Street Journal got the news earlier today, with confirmation later arriving on QuickFire’s site. QuickFire’s tech speeds up encoding videos with different profiles for frame rate,… Read More

 BMW is showing off a bunch of new or new-ish technologies this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. On the just-announced side, there are in-development gesture-based controls — so, thanks to an in-car camera, you may soon be able to draw circles in the air to adjust the volume of your music, or point in a certain way to answer a phone call. Read More

 Remember VYou? The video Q&A platform saw more than a million answers posted and raised $3 million in funding before shutting its consumer site down in March 2013 due to lack of user engagement. Now a new startup called Frankly has launched with a similar premise. Currently in beta with a website and apps for Android and iOS, Frankly has secured seed funding of $600,000 from Matrix Partners. Read More

 TV and radio star Ryan Seacrest was at the Consumer Electronics Show tonight to talk about Typo, the mobile keyboard startup that he co-founded with CEO Laurence Hallier. Typo is showing off its upcoming keyboards for the iPad Air and iPad Mini, but my conversation with Seacrest focused more on the broader vision for the company and his experience with his first startup Read More

 When you think of Parrot, chances are you are thinking about the A.R. Drone or it’s recently launched Bebop drone. But as the company’s CEO Henri Seydoux told me in an interview earlier today, drones are only one area of interest for the company. Parrot is interested in everything that connects to the smartphone and these days, that includes your house plants. The company… Read More

 It’s been almost a year since Takuro Yoshida and his team blew up Kickstarter with the Ring, a wearable that uses simple wand-like gestures to control gadgets in the home. Promises abounded: You’ll be able to control the lights in your home with the flick of a finger. You’ll be able to change the song on your iPhone, turn up the music, or even snap a photo. Read More