TechCrunch:
Everlater has secured an undisclosed Series A round of funding led by Highway 12 Ventures, to help the startup “expand its development, marketing and sales efforts”. Terms of the financing were not disclosed, but Highway 12 V (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Break Media, a social video site for guys, is launching a new branded content project, called the “Social Sportz Net,” created in partnership with liquor brand Southern Comfort. The videos will consist of an original series o (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Facebook is much more than a social network. Twitter is much more than an information network or serendipity engine. Each represent a dashboard for your attention, a foundation for conversations and collaboration, and a matri (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Time for this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze how Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Web will evolve, review Hulu's latest plans to make money, investigate use case (Read More)
Mashable!:
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this "social search" would entail, and so (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In 2006, in an essay entitled How to Be Silicon Valley, Y-Combinator's Paul Graham laid out what it would take to build the next generation of emerging startup hubs. According to Graham, all that is required are nerds, rich p (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The last thing the world needs is another video site, right? Well, that’s not stopping Aaron Crayford, who convinced a bunch of his supercomputer engineer buddies to put together Rippol, a video discovery site that blends ha (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Remember when Pizza Hut put out a job posting for a “Twintern,” a.k.a. someone who would Tweet for the company and assist with all things social media? Well, a lucky UNC-Chapel Hill student, Alexa Robinson, was brought on boa (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a bunch of great events to our guide this week. The one we're most excited about (of course) is our own ReadWrite Read-Time Web Summit, which takes place this coming Thursday in Mountain View. You can download th (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Our mission at ReadWriteWeb is to explore the latest Web technology products and trends. We're fortunate to have a great group of sponsors who support this goal. So, once a week, we write a post about them; about who they are (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The Real-Time Web - it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obses (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last year on its tenth birthday, Google announced its Project 10^100, a call for unique ideas to help as many people as possible.In the 12 months between then and now, the company has fielded around 150,000 submissions in 25 (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Today at the DEMOfall 09 conference, Digitrad announced a new consumer voice service called OrganIP. Although the odd name conjures up ideas of a medical or musical application, we think that perhaps it's supposed to be a pla (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Particle, the Justin Timberlake-funded microapp development shop, is dedicated to creating "massively small" products that provide simple, creative solutions to real problems.When we first reviewed their Robo.to application, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
This is an exciting week for us here at ReadWriteWeb. We just recently announced the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, which is gearing up to be an excellent event on the state of the real-time Web and the challenges ahead. See (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of computer book publisher O’Reilly Media and a conference organizer. O’Reilly coined the term Web 2.0 five years ago. Now he is arguing it is t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Here is this week's ReadWriteWeb events guide. Remember to download the calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In conjunction with today’s announcement of a new wireless Sony Reader, the electronics giant also launched a literary clone of Twitter called Words Move Me. The site falls into the category of viral social marketing—there a (Read More)