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| Sep 7, 2012 | Now At Mixbook, Former Yobongo Team Reveals Mosaic, A Fast Way To Build Photobooks From Your iPhone | The team behind Yobongo, the location-based mobile chat application that was acquired by Mixbook in March, is finally ready to reveal what they’ve been up to in the months since. We already knew that Mixbook wanted to expand into the mobile... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Green Dot acquires Loopt for $43M in cash | Mobile banking service looks to check-in biz for a boost to upcoming mobile wallet
Adding geo-location services to your enterprise is a must-do for most companies and Green Dot has just taken a big leap in that direction by announcing the a... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Chat Startup Yobongo Gets Acq-Hired By Mixbook | Yobongo, the startup that creates mobile chat rooms for talking to anyone and everyone nearby, has been acquired by Mixbook.
The entire Yobongo team, including co-founders Caleb Elston and David Kasper, will be moving to Mixbook’s new Palo ... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble | It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s... |
| Sep 16, 2011 | The New Social Network: Who’s Nearby, Not Who You Know | There’s a new concept for social networking services taking root, and it’s not about re-creating your offline social graph on the Web, like Facebook does today. It’s about discovering the people who are nearby you now – the ones you probabl... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Yobongo Adds Photos, Bringing Chat Closer to the Real World | Since its launch at South By Southwest Interactive this year, Yobongo has been a quiet startup. It hasn’t made best-thing-since-sliced-bread pronouncements or it’s-the-x-of-y elevator pitches; it has just quietly kept working on its simple ... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Yobongo Aims To Up The Interaction With "Around" And "Nudge" | Yobongo has a problem that isn’t an easy one to solve. They want to create a realtime communication tool centered around location. But if people around you aren’t always on Yobongo, what do you do? Two new features aim to address that key i... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | New Wave of Social Networks Have You “Friending” Your Location | This morning, another new startup launched a mobile social networking application where location is the primary feature and friends comes second. Banjo, which shows you all the people nearby upon first launch, is one of many similar service... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Color Me Badd | Come inside, take off your coat
I’ll make you feel at home
Now let’s pour a glass of wine
‘Cause now we’re all alone.
The opening lines of Color Me Badd’s seminal “I Wanna Sex You Up” sort of perfectly encapsulates Color — the company/photo... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Yobongo Ponders The "Anti-Away Message" To Spur Conversations | Of all the apps clumped together in the group messaging space, Yobongo is fairly unique. It’s far more reliant on realtime chat than the others which can be fun, but also leads to its own set of problems. For example, what if you don’t know... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Using Windows Phone 7: One Week with an HD7 | I have now been using Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, for exactly a week, having temporarily set aside my beloved Android-based Nexus S in the process. To really test a smartphone, and determine what the end user e... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Mobile Messaging March Madness | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah.
On Thursday, I used Yobongo all day, which... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Are We in a Bubble? | That was the question I got asked the most during my time in Austin and San Francisco this month. Perhaps it’s become the new ice-breaker at networking events. But also people are genuinely curious and unsure about whether the tech scene ha... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | How Do You Talk To An Angel? Use Yobongo, They're All Investing. | “We spoke to investors in October but many people doubted that Yobongo would work. So we went and kept working on the product,” Yobongo co-founder Caleb Elston says. “A few weeks ago we got the product into peoples hands and literally 10 mi... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Poll Results: Hurricane Party Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011 | After a week of polling, Austin-based startup Hurricane Party came out on top of our 2011 Hottest Startup at SXSW poll. Though group texting/chat was a hot trend at SXSW 2011, it seems that the real battle was between geo-location services ... |
| Mar 19, 2011 | Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Additions & Updates | Redeem now
For South by Southwest 2011, we constructed a two-day long Dogpatch Labs SXSW and, over that period, hosted 100s of entrepreneurs. It was a lot of fun and a big success (TheStreet, Inc, NY Observer, etc).
The weekend also reminde... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | Poll: What’s The Hottest Startup at SXSW 2011? | In the past, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) has been a place where startups launch and make a big splash. In 2007 and 2008, Twitter was the buzz. The last two years, both Gowalla and Foursquare grabbed people's real-time check-in att... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Video: Q&A With Yobongo's Caleb Elston At SXSW 2011 | A while back, MG told you about Caleb Elston’s new location-based chat app and service called Yobongo which lets you chat with people in your general vicinity. Creepy for some, cool for others, it nevertheless is a new way to communicate wi... |
| Mar 13, 2011 | Do We Really Want to Talk to Strangers Based on Our Location? | With SXSW well under way in Austin, Texas, the servers behind apps like Beluga, GroupMe, Kik and FastSociety must be working overtime. After all, people like talking to their friends, right?
In this same batch of apps, we’ve seen another ph... |
| Mar 10, 2011 | Mashable’s SXSW Potential Breakout Apps: 3/13 Are Dogpatch Labs Companies | Redeem now
As South by Southwest approaches, start-ups are polishing their applications and planning their launch parties. And today Mashable listed the “13 Potential Breakout Apps to Watch at SXSW 2011“. Of the thirteen companies to watch,... |
| Mar 5, 2011 | The App Wall | A couple nights ago, a friend sent me a message. “So glad we finally have a way to talk without hanging out.”
He was, of course, kidding. He sent me the message through Yobongo, a new location-based realtime chatting app that launched this ... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Yobongo’s chat app launches for everyone in select cities | Location-based chat startup Yobongo is opening its iPhone app beyond its private test today — now any user in San Francisco, New York, and Austin can sign up.
The app was created by Caleb Elston and David Kasper, two former employees of liv... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | And Now The True Test For Hot Beta Chat App Yobongo: Going Live | We’ve written about Yobongo a couple of times now. It’s an interesting concept (location-centric realtime mobile chat) with great execution. But that execution has so far only had to withstand 140 or so beta testers. Starting today, the app... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | An Unlikely Entrant In The Location App Race At SXSW: Ask.com | There’s a fairly insane rush currently underway to launch new services in time for SXSW next week. Most of these are obviously startups hoping to hit it big at the conference and ride that success to greatness just as Twitter and Foursquare... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | Yobongo’s Secret Sauce: Ambient Real-Time Communication | With the South By Southwest Interactive festival just a couple weeks out, everyone is asking “What will be the big app this year at ‘South By?'” One genre we’ve all been looking at this year is group communication. Apps like Beluga, GroupMe... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | Yobongo Will Be In The Running For The Addictive App At This Year's SXSW | A month ago, we detailed a new location-based realtime chat service called Yobongo. At the time, co-founder Caleb Elston didn’t want us to show shots of the app in action because it was still a work-in-progress. But now he’s finally comfort... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Former Justin.tv VP Launches Yobongo in Private Beta | A little over six weeks out and already everybody’s talking about what company will break out at this year’s SXSW Interactive. There’s been a lot of talk about apps like GroupMe, Beluga and Fast Society, which all make group communication q... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Yobongo launches chat app — a tech fix for shy nerds? | A new startup called Yobongo is giving users their first chance today to get their hands on its mobile chat application, which helps you to find strangers nearby and start talking to them.
The company was created by two employees from lives... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Yobongo: Forget What Your Parents Said About Not Talking To Strangers | Believe it or not, in the 1990s, it used to be considered fun to go into a chat room on the Internet and talk to complete strangers. We all did it, if only to see what exactly was going on out there. The fundamental idea of being able to co... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Justin.tv business officer departs after job becomes defunct | David Aufhauser, the chief business officer of live video streaming site Justin.tv, has left the streaming site now that it has decided to shift its focus to a consumer-driven “YouTube model” for live streaming.
Aufhauser’s specialty was br... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | Justin.tv VP Of Product Latest To Stream Out; Starts Stealth Mobile Sharing Startup, Yobongo | It was just over a year ago that Caleb Elston announced he would be leaving Miami and heading to San Francisco to become the VP of Product for Justin.tv. As of today, he’s out to commit himself to his new startup, Yobongo, a stealth startup... |
| Why True Invested in Yobongo | Day had turned to dusk, and I hadn’t even noticed. It was now a cool evening in Palo Alto, and I realized that I hadn’t glanced at the time in well over three hours.
Caleb Elston and I had originally sat down for a late Sunday lunch to tal... |
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