Crowdsourcing James Patterson To Release "Crowdwritten" Novel Next Month Best-selling crime author James Patterson will release a new kind of novel next month - one that's been collaboratively written with the crowd. Called AirBorne, the upcoming novel will feature 30 chapters, each written by a different author except the first and last - those will be written by Patterson himself. With the release of this book, it… Sarah Perez View comments
Blogging ReadWriteWeb France Catches Up with Matt Mullenweg While Matt Mullenweg was in France for WordCamp Paris 2009, the team from ReadWriteWeb France took the opportunity to catch up with him and ask him a few questions about open source, WordPress, and the future. Rick Turoczy View comments
Features ATG Recommendations Aims to Predict Your Next Purchase In this latest instalment in our series on recommendation engines, we look at ATG - an e-commerce services vendor which, among other things, provides recommendations technology to retailers such as Tommy Hilfiger and BetterWorldBooks. ATG has a similar "blended" approach to recommendations as richrelevance, whom we profiled last week - in… Richard MacManus View comments
Product Reviews Is This Thing On? SpeakerRate Helps Speakers Get Honest Feedback The tech event season is beginning to heat up. If you're a speaker, you know that standing in front of a crowd isn't half as hard as getting critical feedback on your talks. People who disliked it will generally remain silent or opt for a snarky tweet or two. Those close to you will tell you "You did great!" no matter how poorly you performed… Rick Turoczy View comments
News DEMO Producer Chris Shipley to Pass the Torch to VentureBeat's Matt Marshall The DEMO conference, a Silicon Valley institution, will announce a changing of the guard tonight. Executive producer Chris Shipley will begin a hand-off of leadership to Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News reporter turned blog founder at VentureBeat. That's right, DEMO is being taken over by a blogger. If you're not familiar with DEMO, it's a… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments