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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 |

The Birth of the Virtual Assistant

Dag Kittlaus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Siri. He is a serial innovator and consumer wireless Internet veteran of 10 years in both Scandinavia and the US. Siri is Dag’s third consecutive mobile product.In the near future, anyone who lives a conn…

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

ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup

This week was a busy one in the news as Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s iPad on the same day President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address – two events with significant impacts on startups and entrepreneurs. In this week’s ReadWriteSta…

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

Is Bill Gates’ New Website Really Running On Linux?

Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates’ new site, The Gates Notes, was running on a Linux-powered server. This would be ironic since Gates is of course the founder of Microsoft, whi…

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

Context is King: How Videos Are Found And Consumed Online

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of posts by guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan. Previously, he wrote about the State of Online Video, and 12 Surprising Things Holding Back Online Video Advertising.  In part 3 today, he examines how v…

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

Tesla’s $100M IPO: Losses Expected Until At Least 2012. Musk Taking $1 A Year.

Electric car company Tesla Motors has filed for a $100 million IPO. There were rumors recently floating around that the company, which is led by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, would go public “soon.” One interesting tidbit from the filing: Musk only t…

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

Guest Post: Get Real, Geeks – The iPad Is The Apple For Mom

This is a guest post by Daniel Tenner, CTO and co-founder of Woobius, a web-based document sharing tool for architects, engineers and designers. He also blogs at danieltenner.com and tweets at @swombat. This is his take on the iPad.To much of the ge…

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

3 Million Amazon Kindles Sold, Apparently

“Millions of people now own Kindles,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com yesterday. That surprised analysts, who thought that Amazon would sell 2.5 million or so of the devices by the end of 2010, nearly a year from now. We’ve checke…

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

Episode 66 – Freshbooks / Mike McDerment

I spoke with Mike McDerment, Co-founder and CEO of Freshbooks. Mike shares lots of great advice on building a business, the importance of choosing the RIGHT business partner and more in this jam packed episode.

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

Steve Wozniak Talks iPad (Video)

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak paid a visit to California State University of Chico yesterday after the official unveiling of the iPad, and while there he was asked by the audience how he sees the device affecting the entertainment industry.Videomak…

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