If you have ever struggled with Webex and GoToMeeting just to share a few slides with friends or colleagues, you will love Screenleap. It’s very easy: to share your screen, just click on the “Share” button, click the “Allow” button and a box pops up with a link you can send to your friends. Your friends put the link in their browser. They can be on a smartphone or tablet while viewing your screenshots. When you are done, click on Stop Sharing. That’s it. And it’s also free. Now why didn’t someone come up with this before?

iPhone 4 battery on fire

My brother took this photo of an iPhone 4 on fire. He says: “I was in Starbucks today when suddenly a lot of smoke from the table of another customer rose up and filled the whole place. Employees took the phone outside where I took this picture. The heat expanded the battery, popping off the back case cover. So yes this stuff does happen.”

An Event Apart San Francisco features 12 great speakers and sessions. Following the two-day conference comes an intense learning session on Mobile Web Design led by Luke Wroblewski (author, Web Form Design). You can register just for An Event Apart or just the workshop, or save $100 when you sign up for all three days. Speakers include Jeffrey Zeldman, Jeremy Keith, Kristina Halvorson, and more.

Fantastical was created by Michael Simmons and Kent Sutherland who are based in Roseville, California and Boston, Massachusetts. Here is a short Q&A with Michael.

Q: What inspired you to launch Fantastical?

A: We wanted to make Mac and iOS apps that are enjoyable and flexible. Apps with beautiful design and powerful yet easy functionality.

Q: Where do you see Fantastical within a year?

A: Since we launched, Fantastical has been featured on the Mac App Store and we’ve been consistently in the Top 150 Grossing list. In the next year, we’ll keep enhancing Fantastical with even more functionality and launch another product.

Q: Are you self-funded?

A: Yes, We are self-funded.

Check out Fantastical: http://flexibits.com/fantastical

You can buy it from their online store for $19.95.

Very cool idea. The missing elements are wine and tapas. Then it will be perfect.

UpOut is an online application that lets you find out what’s going on in your city. The interface is colorful and easy to navigate. At present they have New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Los Angeles, London, Austin, Miami and Las Vegas. You can find out what’s going on right now, later in the evening, during the week, for a variety of activities such as theatre, restaurants, bars, dating, outdoor, weird and more. The site launched on 1 July 2011. The founders are William King (aged 19) and Martin Shen (aged 21). They moved from Boston to San Francisco. I asked Martin what inspired them to start UpOut and here is what he says:

Will had just started dating a cutie and was looking for awesome things to do but was left with only the touristy stuff on Boston.com or restaurants on Yelp. Then, after spending many hours on blogs and asking friends, he found a Friday salsa class (link) and the rest is history.

In a year, Martin hopes that more people will use UpOut and when they’re wondering what to do in their city, they will say, “We’ll just UpOut it.”

Martin and William are bootstrapping their startup.

As readers of Pajama Entrepreneur recall, we interviewed co-founder Philip Stehlik in a profile about Taulia last January 2010.

Friday, August 12 – Mission Bay — Professional/Large-scale

The focus of this day will be large-scale, professional installations of WordPress. If you’re a using WordPress to power a professional publication, community site, application, academic network, large-scale business, government, or non-profit site, or another kind of site with similar requirements, this day is for you. Topics are likely to include scaling, multisite, BuddyPress, working with WordPress developers, security, transitioning to WordPress, case studies, and CMS-specific features. There will be sessions to appeal to a wide range of pros, including business leads, project managers, administrators, developers, sys admins, and content creators.

Friday, August 12 – Pier 38 — First-Time User Workshop

At a separate location on Friday, there will be a newbie workshop for people who have not yet started using WordPress, but would like to. The workshop will include setting up a live blog/site, then learning how to create content, change and edit themes, moderate comments, and understand how to use the features built into WordPress. At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a live site with a customized theme and starter content. Attending this workshop will also provide vocabulary and reference points that will make it easier for first-time users to get the most out of Sunday’s event. Appropriate for those wanting to start a blog or a basic website.

Saturday, August 13 - Developers and Designers

Saturday’s focus is on the open source developer community that makes WordPress possible. We’ll run a core contributor training workshop for developers who would like to get involved but aren’t sure where to start or just want some guidance, and will have sessions on all kinds of development topics, including core code, plugins, themes (including some design sessions, hopefully), and APIs. We’ll also have sessions on related design topics that will help you make your themes and plugins look better and provide better user experiences. This day is for the techies. Anyone who makes a living doing WordPress development — or would like to — should attend this day.

Sunday, August 14 - Bloggers and Content Creators

With over 40 million people using WordPress around the world, obviously bloggers and content creators are close to our hearts, and Sunday will be devoted to helping them get the most out of WordPress. We’ll have sessions to inspire, to inform, and to instruct. Tips for better writing, ideas for sprucing up your site, how-to sessions to help you get more out of WordPress (and themes and plugins), and connecting you with other WordPress users are just some of the ideas we have for sessions.  Sunday is also when WordPress lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg will give his annual “State of the Word” address.

Lifelapse bills itself as a new way to capture your life and relive all your events and experiences. It has launched two products: Lifelapse for iPhone and the Lifepouch (a cute little pouch you hang around your neck where you place your iPhone so it automatically takes photos of things happening in front of you without your intervention).

Lifelapse for the iPhone captures your life by taking a picture every 30 seconds and allowing you to share it via a one-minute video. The application launched on 28 June 2011. Ultimately, the creators of Lifelapse want to build a web platform that will use several types of data to aggregate visual memories of your day or selected events.

The founders of Lifelapse are Glenn Wolters, Jeroen Bos and Tom Klaver, who are based in Amsterdam. Below is a short Q&A with Glenn Wolters.

Q&A with Glenn Wolters, co-founder of Lifelapse

Q: What inspired you to create Lifelapse?

Jeroen Bos and I founded a schoolproject that set out to create revolutionary products that people really  needed. After several months of concept development, we got in touch with the concept of Lifelogging, capturing everything you do with the intention to learn about yourself. We explored the concept and eventually wanted to create a system that knew everything I ever did, so it could help me relive events and live a better life.

How are you making money?

We’re currently selling neck wearable pouches and the iPhone app.

Where do you see your product in a year?

We will continue the development of our web platform and in one year we will have created the basis of what we call a “Social Memory System”.

Are you self-funded?

Yes, but we are looking for angel investment to kickstart our next development cycle.

www.lifelapse.com