February 27th, 2013

No Wi-Fi, No Problem – Restaurant Waitlisting App For iPad NoshList Comes To Smartphones

NoshList apps

NoshList, the restaurant waitlisting app for iPad launched just over a year ago, is today making its way to smartphones, including both the iPhone and Android devices. Although possibly not the ideal form factor for the job, the mobile app allows restaurants to test the NoshList experience on devices they likely own, before making an investment into a tablet (or multiple tablets) to run the… → Read More

September 6th, 2012

No More Crappy Conference Calls: UberConference Launches For All, Adds Pro Features

UberConference

In a matter of days, the team from Firespotter Labs, makers of conference calling solution UberConference, will be on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, handing off the trophy for their Disrupt NYC 2012 win to another new startup. But today, UberConference has news of its own. The company is now exiting its closed beta and is launching a Pro version with a ton of premium features designed… → Read More

March 7th, 2012

Google Voice Founder Sets His Sights On VoIP Once Again

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Is Google Voice (previously GrandCentral) co-founder Craig Walker getting back into the VoIP game? According to a recent tweet he sent out, it looks like Walker and his team at incubator Firespotter Labs is cooking up something in the VoIP space. As Walker writes, “Starting to play around with a bunch of VoIP ideas…time to take this incubator thing into hyperdrive:).”

For background, Walker… → Read More

January 19th, 2012

It’s Still Funny, But It Might Not Be A Joke: Jotly Arrives On Android

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I’m beginning to think the team at Firespotter Labs are marketing geniuses. Prior to launching their new iPhone app Jotly (you know, as a joke), they released a hilarious video featuring a “fake” app by the same name. In the video, a guy goes around rating things like parking meters, hiding spots, ice cubes, and a beer in the alley that was left in the sun (F-, if you’re curious). The video was… → Read More

May 4th, 2011

Google Voice CEO Craig Walker Launches Firespotter, A Google Ventures Funded Incubator

When Google Voice (previously GrandCentral) cofounder and CEO Craig Walker left Google last year, he didn’t go far. In fact, he just went across the street to set up a desk at Google Ventures as an entrepreneur in residence.

At the time he told me his goal was to start a new company. Now, he tells me, he wants to start lots of them.

He and his team (former Google Voice engineers Brian Peterson… → Read More