Product Reviews Nizm: A Video Portal for People with Taste If your taste in online video-watching goes beyond the viral videos of mass appeal that include things like this drugged-up kid, Where the hell is Matt?, or even the latest internet phenomenon Susan Boyle, then you're going to love the new site called Nizmlab. While its name may be a bit funny, its content is pure sophistication. Instead of just… Sarah Perez View comments
Conferences BIGOmaha: Nebraska Tech Conference Aims to Show Big City Conferences How it's Done There are dozens of tech conferences to attend in any given year. So why in the world would you choose BIGOmaha, an obscure little show in Nebraska? Next weekend marks the offbeat "tech et al." conference's first year, and it already stands in stark contrast to more established shows in the same sphere. Co-organizer Jeff Slobotski says that… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Video Services Online Videos Promote Social Sites & Apps Through Entertainment & Demonstration Users are bombarded with new sites and apps that spring up every five seconds. It's becoming increasingly difficult to know what's the next big thing and what's just more noise and clutter. Enter new media marketing for new media products! A rash of online promo videos for social products show how Internet and mobile entrepreneurs have taken… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Interviews The START Fund: Disrupting the Disrupters (RWS Interview) For the fifth in our series of interviews with investors, we decided to do something different. Elliott Dahan, of the START Fund, cannot write you a check. At least not yet; he is working on that. But he is trying to do something much more ambitious, which is to create a totally new model for funding early- and seed-stage ventures. VCs love to fund… Bernard Lunn View comments
News Proposed Act Would Create National Cyber Security Office Tomorrow, Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) will introduce the ICE (Information and Communications Enhancement) Act, which would make information security a federal priority and establish a Chief Information Security Officer to report directly to the president. Currently, national information security responsibilities are divided between the Department… Jolie O'Dell View comments