Talking Pictures LLC

PixStori™ is a social app to record and share stories about your photos, linking voice and image in "talking pictures." Imagine oral history meets Instagram.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Software
  • Location New York, NY, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded May 2014
  • Employees 5
  • Website pixstori.com

Company Summary

PixStori™ is an app to record stories about your photos, linking voice and image together. It's oral history and Instagram. They can be
- instantly shared on social media
- uploaded into searchable cloud collections of family or group memories
- used as research data for organizations and businesses.
Each application has large market potential, creates opportunities for patentable content management IP, and provides distinct revenue streams.

Team

  • Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    Mike Haller is the Founder of InterClipper INC, which introduced the first realtime video clipping service for qualitative market research in 2000. Haller developed technical and software experience at AT&T, co-authoring four patents. InterClipper® software set the standard for qualitative video management and is now widely used to help companies analyze customer’s stories. Haller combines technology design and entrepreneurial development.

  • Co-Founder & Content Management

    As UB Professor of American Studies /Senior Research Scholar, Michael Frisch established The Randforce Associates LLC in 2002. Randforce customizes indexing methods and tools for oral history and audio-video generally. An internationally recognized leader in oral history scholarship, Frisch is now recognized as among the shapers of “Oral History in the Digital Age,” a national project to update oral history practice.

  • Co-Founder & CTO

    Charles Sands is the Director of Digital Development at Access Intelligence in NYC where he leads a team of front-end and back-end engineers, product and project managers for this leading worldwide information and marketing company. Charles is also the co-founder, designer and architect of GoChords™, a subscription based web application and app for creating and sharing music notation.

  • Co-Founder & Digital Strategy

    Dan Haller is Associate Media Director at a leading digital ad agency in NYC, recently acquired by the second largest worldwide advertising agency. He designs and manages ROI focused media campaigns of $50 M annually for healthcare clients. He brings an innovative approach to media strategy, executing many of his major pharmaceutical clients’ first forays into digital channels including social media and native advertising campaigns.

  • Multimedia Search & Display

    Melanie Morse, Project Director for Randforce Associates, works to organize raw oral history collections into manageable databases for clients and their publics. She is also a principal and writer and producer for a commercial multimedia story-telling company Honey + Punch and has worked on dozens of productions across the country for companies including Proctor and Gamble, Energizer, Johnson & Johnson, Duracell, Starwood Hotels and Starbucks.

Advisors

  • Executive VP of keating/co, a strategic messaging and brand expression firm located in NYC. One of the founding management team of Audible. At AT&T he was involved with several new service initiatives including the General Magic messaging partnership
    Provides capital introductions and creative input. Director of Marketing for Quantitative Strategies Group at a multibillion-dollar asset management business in CT. Has spent the majority of his career investing in early stage hedge fund managers.
    Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia Medical School. Advisor to IBM Watson team. Member of the Watson Healthcare Advisory Board. Researcher into the integration of artificial intelligence into the medical diagnostics and decision making.
  • Research Professor in the School of Computer Science, UMass-Amherst. Fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Develops intelligent tutors using artificial intelligence and multimedia. Funded by NSF, Gates Foundation & Education Dept.

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