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indiekidon Sparrow, new Mac mail client out of beta and #1 on Mac App Store

Sparrow does labels, clean views and has Gmail keyboard shortcuts (if you enable them) and is super fast. Been a beta user for months now...

indiekidon RWW Most Promising Company of 2011: Simplegeo

And we love that about you :)

indiekidon RWW Most Promising Company of 2011: Simplegeo

It's not you missing something, it's RWW. We were actually trying to build "Alternate Reality" games, not "Augmented Reality". The clear distinction is that our plan was to build "game worlds on top of the real world" but didn't worry about our implementation. It could have been some list-based game, and it still would have been Alternate Reality.

However, we were looking into using Augmented Reality as the delivery mechanism for these games. Then we open sourced the AR stuff that we had built to that date: https://github.com/simplegeo/SGAREnvironment

indiekidon New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places

A company called SoftFacade does our icon work. http://wow.softfacade.com/

indiekidon TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston

Personally, having been in TechStars (founder of SocialThing), I think the programs are very different. Both have their merits, one is not necessarily better than the other, just different.

Why the TS vs. YC animosity? We're (startup founders) all in this game together. Of course there will be competition and such, but we're all at the same stage at one time or another, so why not help? Why not be happy that there are 10 more companies that will get funded than last year?