Startups Is There a Better Way to Evaluate Startup Accelerators? This guest post comes in response to Tim Devaney and Tom Stein's ReadWriteStart post, "Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere," one of our most buzzworthy stories this week. The emergence of accelerators has been vital to spurring innovation and entrepreneurship over the last several years, and their continued expansion is essential… Arie Abecassis View comments
Music The State of Online Music Discovery Choosing music that someone else would like is more complex than suggesting toaster ovens or even movies. The reasons we like a song are highly subjective and can hinge on very specific, sometimes subtle characteristics. Thus music recommendation is a hard problem whose solution would simplify and brighten the lives of a huge audience - and… Play John Paul Titlow View comments
Analysis What’s Behind Those School Kids Harassing That Grandmother on the School Bus? When the 10-minute video of middle-school students cruelly taunting an elderly school bus monitor went viral, people responded with outpourings of anger and kindness. But what is the Internet’s role in this incident? Antone Gonsalves View comments
Marketing What Do Donuts Have to Do With Domain Names? Many of the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that are about to start appearing on the Internet will go to large, well-known entities trying to stake out their online real estate with an ".amex" or a ".heinz." But the new domains are also opening up opportunities for startups - including Donuts Inc. - to crash the exclusive club of domain… Brian Proffitt View comments
Deathwatch ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: 38 Studios On its own, “Game Developer Fails to Wow, Folds” is hardly newsworthy. But add lies, possible criminal behavior and a $100 million bill to taxpayers, and you have a DeathWatch Candidate. Throw a controversial baseball icon into the mix, and you have a winner! 38 Studios collapsed under the weight of its own ego, and the shockwave took down… Play Cormac Foster View comments