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Lock & unlock your door using your iPhone, with Lockitron

We just moved into SOMAcentral, which is a hot startup space in SoMa for 40 startups, most with private offices.  The fine folks over there offered us a sweet way to lock & unlock our office door - a new YCombinator-funded startup called Lockitron (no info on their public website yet).

They have an alpha product that connects an iPhone app up to the door lock, allowing us to lock & unlock our office door from anywhere in the world.

It's pretty amazing and it's brand new; you won't find anything on the 'net about it yet, but it's real and we are using it!

Below is a video of Lockitron in action.  If you're interested in getting this set up for your home or office just contact me and I'll introduce you to one of the founders.

Vator hosts LivingSocial CTO Aaron Batalion + DabKick at Google Ventures

I'm here at Google Ventures in Mountain View, CA where Bambi Francisco is interviewing Aaron, the CTO of LivingSocial.  Aaron is discussing shipping product at massive scale, JSIO (watch the video to learn what it means) and what it's like to move from DC to SF, where he's now spinning up a team.  Coincidentally, since LivingSocial is based in DC, I also wrote a post & video of the CEO Tim two years ago when I was still in DC.

Here also is a video I took of Balaji, the CEO of DabKick, a company that had a table at the Vator event.  Their very cool photo sharing app is available to try now.  Here's a video: