Analysis Snowflakes in the Valley: What Happens When 40 Nordic Entrepreneurs Visit Silicon Valley During the holidays, the Web becomes an even more significant part of our lives, connecting us to our relatives and friends around the world. The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Together with 40 Nordic entrepreneurs, we decided to take a trip to the startup mecca, looking for… Ramine Darabiha View comments
Vendors Amazon Web Services, WikiLeaks and the Elephant in the Room Yesterday Amazon Web Services sent out a promotional email titled "Amazon Web Services Year in Review." Understandably, the email didn't mention one of the biggest AWS stories of the year: the company's decision to remove the WikiLeaks website from its servers. Dave Winer noticed something else of note in the email: a paragraph about how the U.S… Klint Finley View comments
Facebook 8 Steps to Facebook Photo Privacy, According to Facebook Engineer (We're Still Confused) Let's get this out of the way first: yes, we found this on Quora, the Q&A service poised for media overhype as the second coming of Twitter or blogging or journalism or whatever. But it was an interesting nugget of information from someone in the know and seemed worthy of sharing. According to Justin Mitchell, an engineer on Facebook Photos… Social Sarah Perez View comments
SaaS 5 Enterprise Startups to Watch in 2011 #2: Jama As 2010 draws to a close we're taking a look at a few enterprise startups that show promise and that we haven't covered on ReadWriteEnterprise. Jama Software's flagship product is Contour, a Web-based requirements management application for development teams and consultants. Contour's killer app is Review Center, a collaboration module that… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Apple The iPad Not a Savior of Magazines, as Digital Sales Continue to Fall If publishers are looking to the iPad to help revive (or extend) magazine sales, recent figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) aren't good news. While not all magazines that are available on the iPad release their digital single-issue sales to the ABC, those that do all show a significant year-end drop. WWD reports that Vanity… Audrey Watters View comments