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
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
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
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
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
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