Analysis The Social Layer: Good for Google Apps but Not So Much for the Rest of Us The enterprise community has been talking about the "social layer," for almost a year. It's the SaaS services such as Salesforce.com, Socialtext and Socialcast that have popularized the concept. Now the practice is entering a new phase. The enterprise activity stream from SaaS services is flowing into consumer services such as Seesmic and… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments
Events Guide ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 18 Sept. 2010 We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or email us. You can import individual events in the Events Guide into Google Calendar using the link beside each entry, or download the entire thing as an iCal file (which is… imported_1 View comments
Tips The Case for the Single Founder Startup As someone with limited (ok, minimal. ok, zero) technical background, I am sympathetic to those entrepreneurs who are looking for co-founders in order to help them build and launch their startups. Sometimes you don't have the right skills to do so on your own. But often you do, and the time spent searching for a co-founder could instead be… Audrey Watters View comments
Events Competition Offers Cash and Credits for Startups Using Amazon Cloud Applications are open now for Amazon Web Service's Startup Challenge. This is the fourth year that AWS has run the competition, designed to help recognize startups that are using (or planning to use) any of the paid Amazon Web Services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, or Amazon Mechanical Turk. Prizes include up to $100,000 in cash and… Audrey Watters View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrap-up: Twitter Redesign, Tumblr vs. Posterous, Flawed Foursquare Foot Traffic, And More... Just like last week, our live blogging - in this case the launch of the redesigned Twitter.com - was readers' favorite post of the week. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: Disney proposed standards for Internet of Things toys; iPhone apps can be augmented reality browsers; and there's a real-time guide for… imported_1 View comments