Author Archives: Rubin

Pingster 1.4 Released on iPhone!

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Rubin

Pingster 1.4 is an optimization — fixing a few key elements that simply weren’t working right — to make the current Pingster prototype more useful. (1) The ping now works even when you’re phone is sleeping or the app is in … Continue reading →

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Interruptions…

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Rubin

Yes, it seems like we all disappeared for the summer.  The real story involves a fire in a neighbor’s apartment after the 4th of July –which wiped out the building and sent our start-up into a bit of disarray. (They … Continue reading →

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Pingster 1.3 Released for iPhone

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Rubin

In the past couple days i’ve had opportunities to use Pingster in ways that made it clear that it’s really not like other apps, and it can be enormously useful. I was in San Francisco, North Beach, and was planning … Continue reading →

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Push Beyond…

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Rubin

Messing around tonight with some old material, I re-edited my first YouTube video, cutting it down and hotting it up (the Beck song rocks). I thought it might be a statement about Pingster – something about friends/strangers or connecting or … Continue reading →

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Mood Swings and Innovation

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Rubin

Yesterday was weird. It began by hearing that Glympse closed on $7.5M in a B round of financing. Glympse has been around for a couple years, still pushing their version of location-sharing, and recently hit 1M users. Regardless of what … Continue reading →

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Pingster 1.2 for Android Released Today

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Rubin

While iPhone downloads seem to be eclipsing Android downloads, we still felt the need to keep the Android version caught up to the iOS so friends can more easily connect. Ok Android users: go get some Pingster and play around!

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Velocity Ignite

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Rubin

Always wanted to try an Ignite session. Don’t know what that is? It’s a powerpoint presentation on any topic (usually held at a drinking party attached to a tech conference) with very formal rules — 20 slides that are set to … Continue reading →

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Competition

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Rubin

It looks like Facebook is about to release some photo sharing features – and according to TechCrunch is going to step all over the millions invested in Color.com as well as Instagram and Path… so what’s to stop Facebook (or … Continue reading →

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Pingster 1.2 is Released!

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Rubin

Today for the iPhone, tomorrow for the Android. If you’re a MapOmatic user of the “ping” feature, get Pingster and try the chat. Same login. We do have a server problem we’re working on today where, if you have many … Continue reading →

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The CB Radio Rocked the ’70s. This is why:

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Rubin

I was a kid when CBs were hot. I was never sure how trucker culture rose so fast into the mainstream. But the device that empowered that culture was an open, anonymous, and mobile communicator. It was low-powered so, effectively, … Continue reading →

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