Guest Not in the Valley? At Least Compete With It The following is one in a series of guest posts by venture capitalists that we're running on ReadWriteStart. This one is by Paul Jozefak, a VC based in Hamburg, Germany, who used to run SAP AG's European venture activities and is now a managing partner at Neuhaus Partners. The original post can be found on his blog. One way or another, I've… Guest Author View comments
Search Social Relevancy Rank: What's Missing? The future of search almost certainly involves social networks, social graphs, or social filtering in some capacity. Companies will live or die by whether they get the "social" part right: creating the right level of intimacy, trust, reliability, social connectedness, and accuracy in their results listings. Of course, this specifically means that… Social Guest Author View comments
Cartoons Cartoon: Nothing's Off The Record There's an interesting discussion on Ethan Zuckerman's blog over a New York Times journalist's blog post that names an Iranian blogger as a rumored collaborator with the regime in Tehran. One key thread in that conversation: are the rules different for journalists - for instance, around repeating rumors - when they're blogging than when they're… Play Rob Cottingham View comments
Events Guide ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 25 July 2009 This week, we've put all of our events into a calendar so that you can keep track of them using your scheduling app of choice. So, go ahead and download the entire calendar in iCal format. You can also use this link to import it into your Google Calendar, or import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly… Andrew Lobo View comments
Twitter Evolution of a Revolution: Visualizing Millions of Iran Tweets At its peak, a search for "Iran" on Twitter generated over 100,000 tweets per day and over 8,000 tweets per hour. The plot just below shows the growth in volume of information in the number of tweets per hour. How does an Internet junkie, news organization, or political operative monitor rapidly evolving real-time events, from the crucial… Social Guest Author View comments