SPRING GAMING

WITH

Scott Steinberg, CEO Tech Savvy

Author, Parents Guide to Kids and Video Games

PATH is a smart journal for the smart phone that helps people share life with only their close friends and family. It’s a close-knit private network – limited to no more than 150 friends to keep it private. Users can share the most personal and private moments, photos videos and more. PATH was launched in November 2010 with CEO Dave Morin, previously with Apple and Facebook. Path 2.0 was released in November 2011.

NEXTDOOR is a free online platform that enables neighbors to create private social networks for their neighborhood. Using Nextdoor, neighbors can communicate with each other to build stronger and safer neighborhoods. Nextdoor was created based on the idea that the neighborhood is one of the most important and useful communities in a person's life. Launched in 2010, its mission is to bring back a sense of community to the
neighborhood. To use, each neighborhood creates a private Nextdoor website that is accessible only to the residents in that neighborhood. Once neighbors verify their addresses and join their neighborhood

website, they can find other neighbors in the resident directory, view a neighborhood map, ask advice, exchange local recommendations, and share neighborhood information with each other. Neighbors can choose to see and respond to updates via email, or only on the website.

HIGHLIGHT, launched in January of 2012, is designed to let users learn more about the world around them. For the iPHONE, it runs quietly in the background as people go through their day – surfacing all sorts of information about the people around them – based on their Facebook connections. For example, if friends are nearby – it notifies them. If someone interesting crosses their path, it will tell them more about them. HIGHLIGHT is a lot of fun actually – and gives those who use it a sixth sense of the world around them.

KARMA, launched in February 2012, aims to turn e-commerce on its head. It lets users send gifts to family and friends right from their phone – without needing to know their mailing addresses. The app highlights birthdays, anniversaries, special events and other important moments that can be stored on the Karma calendar within the app. From the moment users think of Karma – they’ll never miss a thing! KARMA also has a catalog with unique partners. like Magnolia Cupcakes or Sesame Street – so gifts are really “out of the box.”