This week's roundtable, co-hosted with Volusion, was focused on e-commerce entrepreneurs, and needless to say, one of the key topics of discussion was customer acquisition via search engine marketing. First up was Andy Humphrey for EcoMowers.com, an e-commerce company that is already at $500,000 annual revenue selling eco-friendly push lawnmowers....
Five years ago, "social" was the next great paradigm, and sure enough, today social is everywhere and everything is social. Facebook's most recent announcements capitalize on this ubiquity and position the company as the hub of a system with an almost infinite number of spokes.We are today with virtual personal...
Amy Webb wasn't planning on starting another business. But two years ago, as revenue-strapped newspapers began closing down or laying off staff, the former reporter and editor turned digital media consultant decided to step in and help her former colleagues. Webb, who was already running a successful company geared toward...
Yesterday, new exemptions were added to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and much of the Web and the blogosphere went a bit wild over the new legality of jailbreaking the iPhone.Today, Apple wants to reinforce that, while no longer a potential breach of the DMCA, jailbreaking your phone will...
Tim O'Reilly was recently at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), talking about the kinds of things that could be done "if we could use medicare data like Google uses clickstream data." The response was a very cautious one.Big organizations have a lot of fear concerning peoples'...
Has your company spent seemingly countless hours tweeting on Twitter, networking on Facebook and writing the company blog? Have you found yourself wondering if it's all a waste of time? Maybe that last Facebook fan page contest saw fewer entries than you'd hoped for, or that last Twitter-only coupon had...
UK company Publisha has created a platform for doing what people are already doing but with less labor and more standardization: publishing across platforms that include mobile. The platform is currently in beta. From one dashboard, a user can publish to a website (provided by Publisha), to iPhone/iPad and to...
The use of logos or insignias to symbolize a product, service or company is one of the oldest ways for a brand to stand out from competitors and similar products. These days, laws protect the misuse or copying of trademarked brand logos, but as technology evolves and companies find new...
Wristwatch and apparel maker Fossil is developing a new watch with an open software development kit (SDK) to allow any kind of notifications to be pushed by bluetooth from your mobile phone to a watch display. The company believes it could win the hearts of geeks by combining programability, real-time...
For those of you with your head in the cloud, we've got two big events for you in the next few weeks. Salesforce.com is holding Cloudforce 2010, which will have "more than 35 Cloud Leaders on the tradeshow floor and 18 expert-led breakout sessions." A few days later, the Cloud...
In a resolution adopted Tuesday, the European Parliament officially endorsed the development of the Internet of Things. This resolution frankly encourages the development of an Internet of Things in the European Union. It even calls on the European IoT Commission to "secure co-financing for the implementation of these technologies" and...
Today in Amsterdam, popular augmented reality (AR) mobile browser maker Layar is celebrating the one year anniversary of its launch with an event called NEXT. In the company's brief lifetime, it has attracted millions of users to the Layar mobile application on Android and iPhone devices with its impressive catalog...
A report yesterday from PricewaterhouseCoopers found that online ad revenue is on the verge of surpassing print ads - an inspiring milestone for new media and convergence. However, the PwC survey was based on combined figures across all online media outlets; are individual news outlets having success detaching themselves from...
If you're a regular ReadWriteWeb reader, you probably think the semantic Web is as important as we do. Which means you may want to check out the upcoming SemTech 2010, which bills itself as "the world's largest, most authoritative conference on semantic technology," and is taking place in San Francisco...
Blogs with Balls 3 is happening in Chicago this weekend; next week's H+ Summit is all about the "Rise of the Citizen Scientist"; and a few days after that is the Corporate Social Media Summit, which features speakers from McDonald's, Adidas, PepsiCo, Dell, Johnson & Johnson and Nokia. And don't...
Practice Fusion, one of the SaaS electronic medical record (EMR) pioneers, has announced a Dell-based hardware system bundle for doctors spinning up to its free cloud-based EMR system. Ryan Howard, CEO of Practice Fusion, walked us through what it means to bring the cloud to a small clinic - ground...
Our first East Coast event - the ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web Summit - just around the corning. It's happening on June 11 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City, and will be our second Summit on the Real-Time Web. If you're a long-time reader, you know that's a topic that...
There are lots of interesting events on the horizon (including the ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web Summit), but one taking place this week that's worth noting is Glue, "the only conference devoted solely to exploring the problem-sets facing architects, developers and IT professionals in a "post-cloud" world." Can't make it to Denver...
The upcoming week is full of thought-provoking social-media, startup and tech-related events. One that caught our eye was the SF MusicTech Summit, which looks at the intersection of music, business and technology. Speakers include Ben Folds, the musician, Michael Tilson Thomas, a conductor, and Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. If...
Here's a little taste of the events coming up in the next few weeks here at the ReadWriteWeb events guide: Seven on Seven, eCommAmerica, DrupalCon, The Real Time Web: Imperative or Insanity?, Big Data Workshop, Future of Money and Technology Summit, and Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. And of course,...
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