"Twitter has officially hit the mainstream," said Megan Calhoun, founder of TwitterMoms, a social networking community for Web-savvy mothers.
"As far as we know, no-one else is creating a 3D printed library of parts such as ours, or building an educational platform to bring the technology to the mainstream," said the founder Simon Riley.
To be sure, bartering is not mainstream, said John C. Moore, a founder of U-Exchange.com.com
(The project is overseen by the brother-and-sister team of Judd and Mia Apatow, grandchildren of the visionary producer Bob Shad, the founder of Mainstream and other vital labels).
We are seeing a real resurgence in feminist activism that is moving from the margins to the mainstream," said Kat Banyard, founder of UK Feminista and author of The Equality Illusion.
"Sufism has never been embraced by mainstream Islam," said Daisy Khan, founder of the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality and one-half of the couple who in 2010 sought to open a community center in Lower Manhattan, mislabeled the "ground zero mosque".
Here again I think there are some legitimate grounds for celebration, in the sense that sustainability language that seemed totally alien to business in 1987 is increasingly going mainstream (as a co-founder of SustainAbility in 1987, I know of what I speak).
Despite positive feedback from early customers, setup was too confusing for a mainstream product, Joypad Co-founder Lou Zell tells me, and so the team released its first developer SDK in July as a way to eliminate all end-user setup.
So we set out our company vision to applying the best in design and technology to enhance our sex lives and make it in a massively mainstream way," said co-founder and CEO Soumyadip Rakshit.
Zivity, the venture-backed adult content site, which we first covered in August 2007, is starting to get mainstream press attention – co-founder Scott Banister appeared on the Fox Business Channel late last year, and Forbes wrote a long piece on them last week.
