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Socialware is emerging from stealth mode, and being increasingly public about its products and services. In the interest of full disclosure, I’m an advisor to Socialware along with Jeff Dachis (Dachis Group), Paul Rogers (Google), and Kenny Van Zant (Solarwinds). The company has been funded to date by some incredible investors, including G-51 Capital, Silverton Partners, and Maples Investments.

The annual South by Southwest Interactive Festival has been known as the launchpad for web-based technology companies. The most famous is probably Twitter, but other companies such as Smule and Gowalla have launched during the festival. Austin-based Localiter is hoping to make a similar splash at the festival with their daily specials made possible by [...]

If you came to Austin Tech Happy Hour last Thursday, you may have been able to catch a sneak peak of something pretty cool as part of Technology Spotlight. Whurley was showing the concept for OpenAustin.org in advance of its official launch today.
You may remember some of the discussion surrounding the City of Austin giving [...]

Round Rock-based Kerlmax has released the latest version of their Austin Traffic iPhone application. Google Maps has a map-based indicator of traffic, but this app has traffic cameras on the major highways in Austin, plus a list of exactly where incidents are happening. You just don’t get that kind of pinpoint accuracy any other way. [...]

SailPoint today announced a suite of new deployment offerings for its identity governance solution, SailPoint IdentityIQ, including a virtual appliance, a hosting option and a menu of managed services, to streamline and simplify the process of buying, implementing and managing identity management solutions. These new options, in addition to SailPoint’s conventional hardware appliance and software [...]

Ever wondered where you can catch live music, right now, within a couple miles of your location? Or maybe you’re in a strange city and don’t know the scene, but would like to know where you can listen to some hip-hop? Turn2Live is the website for you. The website launched at SXSW this week.

At first [...]

It seems like I’ve been waiting forever for the beta launch of BuzzStream. Even worse, I see CEO Paul May and Chairman Jeremy Bencken talking about it at social events all the time. At the TechCrunch event in the Fall, Jeremy had a demo on his Dell Mini 9 that was just awesome. Thankfully, BuzzStream [...]

Next Monday is the Accelerator event at SXSWi, where 20 companies will get a chance to pitch in front of a panel of influential people (and attendees).  Among the finalists are a few companies (40%) from Central Texas.
We should mention that Microsoft BizSpark is the title sponsor for this event, and AustinStartup is a network [...]

We’ve been hearing about what Gendai Games has been tossing together, and now the Alpha is available over at the GamesSalad website.  It’s alpha veresion 0.4.1 but you can probably get a good idea of what it is like to create your own games.  When we heard Michael Agustin, CEO of GendaiGames, talk about his [...]

A year ago we did a Q&A Wednesday feature with Compulsivo regarding their Prefinery product, which allows software companies to manage their beta programs. Today, they are announcing that Prefinery supports the beta programs of web-based software as well. Prefinery manages the entire process of collecting and fulfilling requests for invitations for Web sites in [...]