"As with most major tech discoveries someone with money figures out a way to control it – we're seeing that now with alternative currencies, like Bitcoin.
It is a charmingly low-tech feeling discovery tool that singles out tweets and Twitter accounts that are rising in popularity for one reason or another.
But the country's new constitution, a booming tech industry, discoveries of natural resources, a growing middle class, and investment in infrastructure, health and education are reasons to be optimistic about the future, he says.
"Until now we've only applied the visual discovery tech to the organic consumer facing products," Kendall said.
Gracenote offers its own API that provides audio fingerprinting and discovery tech, and recently introduced its Rhythm API to power exactly the kind of Internet radio services described above.
American demand will be financed in part by investments from abroad, as investors looking at ugly economic conditions abroad aim to get a piece of an equity bull market, or of the latest tech company or shale discovery, or, yes, of the recovering housing market.
The tech reported the alleged discovery of two videos to the FBI, which started an investigation that led to the arrest of James Rivers, 57, last week.
Makover claims that what Keywee does is different, however, because it positions itself somewhere between content discovery and ad tech.
Throughout the event are activations, workshops, and parties that drive networking and discovery within the tech ecosystem.
