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The Great Tabulation is coming, and here is how it can actually save publishing. (Really).

Despite whatever analogies the typically curmudgeonly Jack Shafer might make, even if the tablet only lives up to only a portion of its promise, it will be a game changing device.

The Texas Tribune may be being hailed as the timely poster child for the next generation of investigative news reporting, but at its core, the Trib is a content and technology company.

Is it a sign of the improving economy? There’s some great tech tidbits today, plus news outlets are starting to report on increasing consumer confidence, better jobs numbers, and higher quarter-over-quarter venture capital investment. Sounds like a good reason to celebrate with a happy hour!

The American Statesman has a great piece on Mike Maples, Jr. [...]

Matt Silk, one of the co-founders of Waterfall Mobile, was in Austin for a few days. We had a chance to catch up with him and ask him about what the company was up to these days. The company is based in the Silicon Valley, but works with big brands everywhere. The company did some [...]

The Austin office of Lois Paul & Partners, a national strategic communications agency, announced some new tech clients today. One of them is in Austin, and the other in Virginia. With the addition of two new clients, WellAWARE Systems and Zebra Imaging, the agency expands on its experience in life sciences and cutting edge technologies. [...]

Austin-based gaming company Heatwave Interactive announced that they’ve raised $7.5M from Syncom Venture Partners. Syncom is taking a unique approach to creating a studio that will develop video game IP that can be used across other forms of media. The company is comprised of gaming industry veterans that have been responsible for titles such as [...]

Mirage Networks, an Austin-based developer of Network Access Control (NAC) technology, has been named the winner of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Best Entrepreneurial Company Award.   The award is presented annually to the company with fewer than 300 employees showing the highest achievement in innovative product development, strategic business development and focused market strategy.
“NAC technology [...]

You can find the story here. It’s a great article about Stewart Friedman’s recent visit to Austin, his seminar at Bazaarvoice, and how leadership training is changing to serve the whole person. A pre-release copy of the book has proven to be an amazing read. You can pre-order a copy on Amazon.

The big brands are quickly learning how to market using the social networking tools of the day. Case in point, a new Facebook application namd Alter Ego that is just plain….well….cool. And you can see the Burn branding all over it, which is a Coca Cola brand. In Alter Ego you can create an alter [...]

We reported back in January that we heard Pluck was for sale. Today it’s being reported that Demand Media, run by former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, is acquiring the company for between $50M and $60M. Pretty good for a company with about $10M in 2007 revenue. Mashable has good coverage of the news with Rosenblatt and [...]