Spring is around the corner. And whether you’re about to graduate and making plans for summer break or just taking a short vacation on some company miles, as a tech savvy traveler you want your gear to fit your travel. To that end, Joshua Raley will be offering gear reviews dedicated to the best [...]
We caught up with Ryan Holiday a few months ago for an interview on the New Orleans startup scene. This month Silicon Bayou News was given a sneak peak of his new book “Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator.” The book is already gaining serious buzz from TechCrunch to the New [...]
A few months ago, I stumbled across a virtual emerald: Ohours.org. Ohours is, “the open office hours scheduling platform,” where you can check availability and schedule time to meet with interesting people and subject area experts all over the world. As I’ve written about before, I get occasional requests to act as a gateway into [...]
Silicon Bayou News (SBN) is not a big media company (yet). We don’t have the resources or staff behind big tech news sites like TechCrunch or Mashable. The majority of our team works for free or meager pay and our writers contribute on their own schedules. I’m asked frequently if SBN is my full-time job – [...]
Prairieville-based InfiniEdge recently announced a new online judging application, cleverly coined Judjix. The app has already been in action at the recent Ascension Idol competition and at the Jambalaya Festival. Judjix aims to streamline competition judging and make tallying scores a breeze. With an Administrative Site where event organizers can easily set up their competition and a [...]
By Ryan Murphy Last night’s Net Squared New Orleans (Net2NO) monthly meet-up featured local entrepreneurs Neel Sus (Susco Solutions and Touch Studios), Chris Schultz and Peter Bodenheimer (Voodoo Ventures and Flatsourcing) sharing the web applications they use in their businesses. The crowd also shared their recommendations, and Ron Domingue, Interactive Strategist for Naked Pizza, was pulled into the presentation [...]
Plebu founder Simon Marthinsen says that his company isn’t trying to solve a million problems. Rather, with its unique and intuitive new online web design system, Plebu will, in his words, help in the building of “Portfolio websites for Fortune 100,000 companies.” Initially born to address a simple problem—there was no simple tool for videographers [...]
invoiceASAP, the cloud-based invoice app that allows you to easily create and send professional invoices, estimates, sales orders and receipts, rolled out the beta release of its first product. The program, which is available now for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry, has the ability to integrate with other invoicing and accounting software to let business [...]
With LP Ignition’s portfolio startups recently making their debut at Launch Fest and newly minted cleantech companies showcasing their products and services, New Orleans is quietly becoming a go-to city for new product releases and announcements. Yesterday, the Denver-based technical documentation company Digabit, Inc., announced that it will introduce its flagship mobile software, DocuMobile, at the American Public [...]
PollBob is a social polling iPhone application and website that lets you survey your friends, gather feedback in real-time, and earn rewards for playing. We have an interview with co-founder Ben Jacobson coming soon, but in the meantime, check out the great article written Chris Boudy at NewOrleansTech.net. (And in full disclosure SBN publisher Zach [...]
