Nerd Stalker

Happy New Year everyone. We wrap a great year of Startup Blog Insights for 2013 with a Best of Startup Blog with Taffy Williams, Examiner.com writer and entrepreneur. We do a deep dive on the top five blogs of 2013. Listen or watch Taffy as he shares some stories around each blog.

At the SF New Tech / MacWorld|iWorld "Old Tech / New Tech" holiday event, the Nerd Stalker crew asked the attendees - "What are you grateful for in Tech in 2013?" Here are their responses. Enjoy!

Nerd Stalker Picks of the Week: Apple's iOS Completely Blew Away Google's Android For Shopping On Christmas - Business Insider http://read.bi/1fL3VqU 12 Maker Pro Trends That Expanded the #Maker Movement in 2013 http://bit.ly/JuVcxY via @make (DC Denison / Make Magazine) Amazon Prime tops 20 million members as company touts its best holiday season ever - GeekWire http://bit.ly/1fL43Hc In-depth Interview: Nimrod Madar of @glassesoff bit.ly/1ijEFfw (SocialGreg | Nerd Stalker) Target hackers stole encrypted bank PINs - source | Reuters http://reut.rs/1fL9eGZ Tech Stocks Hover Near #2013 Highs, Paving Way for #2014 IPOs (Alibaba, Box & Dropbox) (Kara Swisher | AllThingsD) Adolfo's picks of the year: fl.ux Car Share service's go mainstream (Lyft, Uber, Sidecar, Relay Rides). Evernote with after the book (gtd) air server/xbmc google chrome google calendar google hangouts/hangouts on air clearly dashlane ios7 Mavericks Free Greg's picks of t...

You've probably seen a lot of press that an App is delivering a promise of losing your reading glasses. If you are 40-64 years old and reading this with glasses, take note of this. We interview Nimrod Madar, CEO of New York based, Israeli developed start-up GlassesOff -  ranked in the Top 5 of the  Medical App category .  GlassesOff  improves reading by enhancing the image processing function of the visual cortex (for the lay people, let's call that the brain). Watch or listen to Nimrod talk about their app with a little about their business as well. 

Photo by Damien Gadal Looking for last minute gifts this eve. Gift cards are the one, right? Check out some data from our friends at CardCash.com . on what gift card should you be buying. CardCash.com, the web’s leading gift card exchange, recently polled nearly 400 of their customers and asked them what gift card they would like to receive this year. If you’re still shopping for Christmas gifts and you’re not sure what to get, gift cards are always a good bet; 80% of Americans plan on giving a gift card as a gift, according to the National Retail Federation. 

How do you make your email work better? We interview Eliot Sun, CEO of kloudless , whose browser plug-in for Chrome and Firefox allows you to seamlessly drive data from email to your cloud storage. Watch or listen as Eliot talks about kloudless, the issues surrounding productivity across apps and the integration of work environments. 

Picture by Michael O'Donnell The Future of Money & Technology Event  held earlier this month in SF Japantown, featured talks from mobile payments to a futurist panel discussion on money moderated by Dan Robles . But, Bitcoin is just the hottest thing in the bar right now as far as chatter goes. Recently, it has cooled in value from a high of $1278.00 on Dec 1 to $706.96 at time of press). We present excerpts from the morning session on Bitcoin from Micky Malka of Bitcoin foundation and Carmen Medina of Deloitte Consulting. Check it out.