It’s the bain of every event attendee’s existence. You’re tweeting from your phone, taking notes on a panel, snapping a cool, yet artistic photo of your morning croissant, and your phone battery. No matter how “smart” our smart phones are, no matter how many tricks and flips it can do or how much they wow us (Siri can practically cook [...]

Launched at the 2012 Launch Conference in San Francisco last week, HADZA (a crowdsourcing video app) has its eye on the events industry. Developed by a Chili, Hazda makes posting and discovering video from an event easier and visually appealing. Allowing event attendees to build a communal video space is something that is in great demand at events today.  HADZA [...]

As gadgets go, the iPad is king. If you don’t have one, you want one. And if you have one, you want to upgrade to the newest version. Unveiled yesterday in San Francisco in a presentation by Apple’s Chief Executive, Tim Cook, The New iPad has been the most anticipated tech product launch of the year so far. The differences [...]

It’s a harsh and drastic measure to take but just about everyone (including event coordinators and guest speakers) have been annoyed by, loud, talkative attendees who seem intent on having their own event while the actual event they came to plays out around them. If I had a dime for every time this happened at a conference, I’d buy an [...]

Storify (the storytelling curating app that has won the hearts and attention span of millions of followers) has officially launched Storify for iPad. Through Storify, you can aggregate multimedia feeds into one Storify account, allowing you to tell a nuanced, visual story from various points of view. The platform allows you to pull rich media from social networks like Twitter, Facebook, [...]

What will conference video footage look like two years from now? If the footage of the DLD Conference in Munich, German and the World Economic Forum in Davos is any indication, the conference video of the near-future will be in 3D (and most certainly interactive). Tech guru Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) shared video (below) of his experience at both mega-world conferences [...]

We’ve gone from laptops, to netbooks, to tablets. What’s next? What can possibly be smaller, sleeker, more power and cooler than any gadget a wired event attendee has in their repertoire? Drum roll please…. ULTRABOOKS!!! This year at the Consumer Electronics Show, “Ultrabooks” was the new buzz word. Ultrabooks by Intel, the PC answer to the MacBook Air, is an [...]

One of the things we stress with event partners and clients is the need to help event attendees become better media creators and curators.  Ultimately, everyone at the event is a contributor (a co-creator) in capturing the best moments at the event for friends, family, colleagues and people following the event in real-time in social media. No matter how astounding, [...]

Cooliris (the Palo Alto-based tech company that specializes in developing apps and plugins that enable Users to post, organize and browse photos and videos seamlessly and beautifully on the Web) is set to release a new photo-sharing iPhone/iPad app that could, if it delivers on everything it says it can do, become the hottest photo app at events in the [...]

Skype (@skype) has been moving quickly and aggressively across multiple platforms in the past six months including launching platforms on iPhone and Facebook.  We knew Skype for iPad was coming shortly thereafter and that it would be a wonderful addition to an already stellar media experience. Skype for video will be a beautiful addition to the app library on your [...]