Just yesterday there was a New-Startups.com team meeting at our local watering hole, but upon arrival each of our team members spent 10+ minutes driving in circles and from parking lot to parking lot to find a place with vacancy. A frustrating ordeal that we’re sure you experience as well from time to time. We covered a parking app in 2011 called ParkMe (formerly Parking in Motion): A Free App that recommends the cheapest and closest parking around you, and it surely would of came in handy yesterday for us.
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There have been quite a few sites popping up trying to become the web space for Instagram, such as Ink361 and Pinstagram. Now, Instadash is the newest platform to enter the space, and to us, it will eventually be the clear favorite in this realm.
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Are you a startup looking to get some testers on board to find out where your idea has flaws or where it can use upgrades? BetaPunch, is a Baltimore based startup that connects startups with beta testers, while letting them video record their screens and get paid to test.
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If you’re part of a Canadian startup team and developing amazing new ideas and technology, there is an accelerator program that you just have to be aware of. INcubes, is holding applications for its second INtake and the deadline is today (May 15, 2012). So if you haven’t applied yet, head over to their website and get yourself applied into what could be the best 3 month curriculum your startup could ever face.
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Over the last 10 years, Louis Monoyudis has worked with the likes of Calvin Klein, John Varvatos and Tommy Hillfiger, but like most designers he then wanted to develop his own collection. However, unlike most designers, he decided to build a virtual place for fashion designers and the crowd to interact on preproduction decision. In February he launched Cut On Your Bias.
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In the above interview Karim Kanji meets with Jeremy Friedburg, Partner at SpongeLab Interactive. Spongelab Interactive, a Toronto based company devoted to immersive learning through educational games and interactive media. While Jeremy has been extensively involved in scientific education outreach programs, teaching students and the public about genetics & cell biology, and consults on a number of textbooks & major interactive educational exhibits created for the general public. Jeremy has taught for 10 years at a number of Ontario Universities including the University of Western Ontario, the University Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto.
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It’s 7:37am, the sun is just peeping out, birds are chirping, but all you hear is BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, no its not the sound of the police, it’s the sound of the alarm that only makes you want to hit snooze. If you don’t use a classic alarm clock and use your mobile to trigger the start of your day, we’re sure you’re only native options are the traditional ring tones that come with the device – not the most pleasant way to wake up.
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We use a lot of different tools to do various tasks and different platforms to make working easier, but “A better tool doesn’t make a better craftsman, but a good tool makes working a pleasure.” iA Writer is an iPhone, iPad and Mac app that makes writing a focused experience instead of a tools heavy application wonderland. Focused on minimalism, the app – which has already sold over 300,000 copies, finds the pleasure in writing and “lets you keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in the text.”
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Although meant for kids, we know everyone will get a kick out of using the Doodle Table Cloth. In Ontario there is a franchise called Jack Astors, they let you draw on your paper covered table while you have dinner with friends. There’s been countless times when dinner talk starts to peter out, but luckily a handy crayon would be near by to draw away until conversation starts back up for our team. Now kids love to do this, but designers, developers and pretty much anyone can bring the opportunity to draw stuff in the dining room home with the Doodle Table Cloth.
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A multitude of dating sites have popped up over the past few years to battle the likes of Match.com, eHarmony and Plenty Of Fish – some promise to help find love with those near by, while others are a bit off the wall: like find love based on shoes you buy. theComplete.me is a new way to find love: via your social media data.
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