Baltropreneur
Though we were not looking at it from a hardware standpoint, but social photo software.
Either way its great to see these devices start catching on and congrats to these guys!
I wonder how many times Paul Graham saw this idea mentioned in applications before picking the right team to implement it?
Overall exciting to see these devices slowly becoming popular (Chumby). There is a ton of innovation to occur here.
Twitter could possibly be the future backbone of the net.
If you vote this down, your not seeing the big picture!
Summize, Odeo, Mixx and many others all hail from the DC area!
I am no different then anyone in this forum. Just a regular guy with ideas who decided to startup from his room in Baltimore, MD.
As for our work ...There is a huge value in taking a 221 year old wake up device and injecting the Internet into it. Whether we wake up to social sounds(Happy Bday, get up meet me at gym) or intelligent sounds(wake up tornado, your plane is delayed (broadcast X is catching flight to X on network=social), it's Jane's Bday tomorrow (social)) our lives will be richer and safer! Maybe it seems that your friends can control the time you wake up... that is not the case! We are innovating the sound and waking you up during life threatening emergencies only!
If you are not interested personal wake up communication, that's cool!
Though since we responded we are curious as to who you are and have we spoken or met before offline?
Cheers, Ryan
That is the idea and vision that led them to something totally different.
Why wait? Find others or friends whom you can learn from or work a full time gig while paying a team or offshore developer to build your product.
THough you first need to have an idea. That is when that component of a startup is most vital. Later on not so much...
Who knew you had to be so adaptable. Learning that now being in Philly's incubator! Great learning experience!
This software should be built into WiFi and standard digital cameras!
Boston, NYC, Boulder, DC, Philadelphia.. all have current hot startups. There is money to be found too in these areas; more in the valley of course...
Maybe Twitter allows for a fee to access all tweets on a search topic from day one?
Companies can use it to monitor their brand and provide better service. The market research industry could be negatively impacted and other things too!
I thought Twitter was so dumb, but once you get enough followers you will see the immense value and hopefully innovate from there!
There is also a vibrant DC tech community an earshot away!