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Bravo! Foursquare Snags a TV Partnership

Foursquare’s new frontier isn’t just newspapers, but media companies as a whole. Case in point: Bravo and Foursquare have entered into a must-see TV relationship integrating show personalities and their city tips, as well as a Bravo badg…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible

Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that’s ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say …

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |
 

Guest Post: The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur

This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French services company. He founded…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

Belgian Band Gets Creative With Video Annotations On YouTube

YouTube has long introduced ways for users to annotate their videos and add links to external websites, other videos on the site, and more. But I haven’t seen that many people or companies make use of video annotations in creative ways – I don’t spe…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |
 

LTech: Moving Sharepoint To Google Apps

On-premise applications like Sharepoint are becoming a target for cloud-based services. Up to now, customers could either start with Sharepoint, or an online alternative like Google Sites.But now we are seeing the emergence of services that help you…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

7 Do’s & Don’ts For Working With A Technical SEO During A Redesign

In the past few months, I’ve been the technical SEO consultant to 6 companies who have been in the process of redesigning their websites. The companies range in size from a one-person show to a world-reknowned Boston hospital, and everything in be…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |
 

DFJ Frontier And City Of Ventura Launch Incubator For SoCal Startups

Startup incubators such as Founders Institute and TechStars, are popping up outposts in various metropolises in the U.S. and even in internationally. Today, VC firm DFJ Frontier, an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and the City of Ventura, Cali…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

The Emerging Era of Alert Services – For Almost Anything

As ever more data flows onto the Web, we need tools to track changes in that data and alert us to new data that we’re interested in. Examples of data that can be tracked include shopping deals, places, companies, home prices, sports scores, local ev…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Web 2.0 |

10 Tips For Content Marketing Success

As more companies, marketers and industry professionals flood the web with content, the value of those with a true understanding of content marketing keeps going up. More noise increases the value of signal. If your content marketing defines you a…

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Search Engines |

China says no curb on Google mobile technology

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China sought to head off concerns about curbs on Google phone technology on Wednesday, as U.S. business groups urged Washington to tackle “alarming” measures against foreign high-tech companies in China.

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Internet |