How-To How To Find a Great Startup Mentor If you're an early-stage entrepreneur and this is your first startup company, you are not alone. Thousands are toiling over code in the hopes that their product will gain users and revenue. The problem with being someone who can build a great product is that you might know more about your core technology then you do about the business of… Dana Oshiro View comments
Cloud Computing How To Crowdsource from the Cloud Crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of work to a large community of people. The size and quality of Wikipedia and open source projects like Linux and Wordpress are a testament to what crowdsourcing can accomplish. But what if you do not have a community ready to show up for work? Luckily there are Web services like Mechanical Turk and LiveWorks… Tim Hastings View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup: Topic Trackers, Facebook Privacy, Mobile Web Sensors, And More... In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we continue our analysis of Facebook's sweeping new privacy policies (plus tell you how to protect yourself), explore how mobile phones and sensors are mixing, look at the launch of the U.K. government's data.gov website, present our categorized list… Richard MacManus View comments
Events Guide ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 23 January 2010 This week we added six new events to the calendar, including one conference that has a cow in a space helmet for a logo. Seriously. How do you like your ReadWriteWeb events guide? As a world map? As a downloadable iCal (and Google importable) file? You can even import individual events using the link beside each entry. Know of something cool… imported_1 View comments
Cloud Computing What Brings Businesses to the Cloud? Convenience In a Feb. 13 report, Gartner estimates 20% of businesses will get rid of all IT assets as they move to cloud. Although costs and IT asset reduction are important benefits, the most important driver behind the move to the cloud is convenience. The ability to spin up new services on a whim, without waiting to procure and configure gear is a major… Mike Kirkwood View comments