Ellen Levy, a Silicon Valley veteran who has worked at companies like Apple and Softbank Venture Capital, built her new firm, Silicon Valley Connect, on the principles she learned while Director of Industry Collaboration and Research at Stanford's Media X. Media X is an industry affiliate program that liaises between...
Google and IBM are betting the (server) farm on cloud computing. The New York Time is reporting that the two tech giants are investing up to $30 million to develop programs to help teach cloud computing concepts to students at six American universities. Google is building a 1,600 processor data...
The star of Adobe's annual MAX conference, held this year in Chicago between Sept. 30 and Oct. 3, was the web application. Web apps and their creation permeated nearly everything that Adobe announced at the massive event, which attracted over 4,000 web developers. With a growing family of products based...
Just a few years ago, large venture firms were incubating companies for months. During the incubation period, the founders wrote 70+ page business plans, which described the market opportunity, the execution plan, along with the five year financial projections. The plan was a proof, a risk management tool, used to...
last100 editor Steve O'Hear has been pondering the future of Internet TV and he sees set-top boxes as key. A set-top box, according to this definition, is "a device used with televisions, allowing users access to enhanced and sometimes proprietary features such as digital channels, video-on-demand, and Internet access".Here is...
Mashery, possibly the coolest company in Silicon Valley that most people have never heard of, announced a Series A funding round tonight. The All-Star crew of angel investors in this "mashup service-provider" are being joined by VCs from two more firms, Formative Ventures and The Accelerator Group. The total A...
As Dilbert knows, everything is a platform today. The trouble is, some very smart people are trying to figure out the definition of what makes a platform. Although a lot of the discussion has been technical, perhaps the best definition of a successful platform is that it makes real money...
In the second session of the second day, it is the turn of advertising companies.AdBriteAdBrite has announced a new product: SPOTTT.com. It's a link exchange program that is very similar to LinkExchange (from the web 1.0 era). Just to remind you; LinkExchange was sold to Microsoft for $265M in 1998....
The last session of the 1st day at TechCrunch40 was about crowdsourcing.Note: for a full round-up of the day's action at TC40, check out Allen Stern's sterling effort at Center Networks.Cake FinancialCake Financial is a financial sharing platform backed by Ron Conway. It allows people to share portfolios and real...
San Franciso-based Kiva.org, a microfinance non-profit organization founded in 2005, is one of the best success stories of the charitable web. We first profiled it back in January. In just 2 years, the site has funded nearly 17,000 loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, and last week the total amount...
The NY Times reports that Microsoft will release a Unified Installer program for Windows Live this week, enabling PC users to download a set of the services - understood to be Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger 8.5 and Windows Live OneCare Family...
There's no denying that live online video is hot right now. Sites like Stickam, Ustream, Justin.tv, and Kyte allow users to broadcast themselves to the world 24/7. On Monday, I had a chance to chat with Josh Harris, the CEO of Operator11, a new entry into the growing field of...
Back in January Amit Agarwal wrote a post called "How to Reduce RSS Stress In Your Online Life" in which he talked about managing enormous lists of RSS feeds. It's likely that your feed list doesn't top 1200 like Amit's, but even with just 20 or 30 feeds, the constant...
This was Facebook Week here at Read/WriteWeb, but I couldn't help but notice how many other blogs wrote posts about Facebook this week as well. It seemed that almost every day there was a Facebook meme on Techmeme. Anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that Facebook is the most hyped...
It has been just under 2 months since Facebook launched their platform initiative, but this self-opening move has already had an extremely positive impact on the company. The changes are not limited to the company itself, however. The move has also disrupted the Internet industry as a whole and web...
Sponsored by:Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.Top Web News After all the iphone buzz of the last couple of weeks, it was a relatively quiet week...
What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars? Existing examples show 4 different types of Internet millionaires:Serial entrepreneurs - keep doing the sameDreamers - expand their horizonsMidas - invest and help multiple entrepreneurs grow new businessesConsistents - stick with their...
Written by Nitin Karandikar; all photos by Jeremiah Owyang The highlight of the Searchnomics 2007 conference today was a keynote, at the very end, by Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience at Google. Mayer's presentation was titled The Future of Search, in which she covered eight areas...
Dmitry Shapiro CEO of Veoh invited me to a GoToMeeting webinar today to unveil a serious challenger in the Web TV market. VeohTV Beta, subtly billed as a "Joost Killer", is actually an amazing development in online video viewing. The impetus for the Veoh TV service is characterized by a...
Clearspring is going to annouce tomorrow that it was chosen by NBC to be its exclusive widget platform for the next year. This is a major deal for Clearspring, and for NBC as well. The specific terms of this business arrangement have not been disclosed. According to Clearspring founder, Hooman...
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