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- April 20, 2003
The best advice we can give you is to know your audience. You don't try to sell booze to pregnant women, you don't make God-jokes in Utah and you don't get a term sheet without tailoring your pitch. Investors are already blogging about what they want from potential portfolio companies, so if you'...
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In November of last year, more than 50 people came together for Startup Weekend Los Angeles. They pitched 45 different entrepreneurial ideas, eventually narrowing them into seven teams. They spent Saturday and Sunday working around the clock to create working prototypes of these ideas with help ...
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The only thing preventing Google's Nexus One phone from supporting multitouch features might be Apple's patents.Allow me to explain: There is nothing in the hardware of this device to prevent multitouch as evinced by Google's comment this morning at their press conference. When asked if the Nexus...
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One hour ago, three emergency vehicles responded to a report of an unconscious person at the world headquarters of Nike Inc. in Portland, Oregon. How do I know? An automated form-pumping robot from startup company Nozzl Media told me.Nozzl Media today unveiled a demonstration of its first produ...
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While maybe not the most visually compelling product, Healthful Apps represents an interesting new trend for 2010. Created by Apps for All, the product recommends peer-reviewed iPhone health applications in a variety of categories including autism, relaxation and memory. Although the company's fi...
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New rules from the Federal Trade Commission, requiring bloggers to disclose free gifts from companies whose products they review, came into effect on December 1st and the first major announcement of 2010 just occurred today. The Google Nexus One mobile phone was unveiled this afternoon and all t...
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In December, I visited Parrot's development labs in Paris to check out the company's newest project. While Parrot is mostly known for its Bluetooth headsets and speaker system, the company's newest project combines augmented reality with a remote controlled helicopter. This helicopter - the AR.Dr...
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Gartner has acquired the Burton Group for $56 million. The purchase is another example of how the analyst community is becoming increasingly homogeneous, dominated by a handful of firms such as Forrester and IDC. And it points to a growing debate about the value that companies can receive from an...
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Google is holding a press event to showcase the new Nexus One and possibly some other mobile innovations today. We already know quite a few of the details about the phone itself, but hopefully Google will also have a few surprises up its sleeve. The press conference should get under way at 10am P...
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MSNBC announced this morning that it is buying the BreakingNews.com URL. This follows November's purchase of @breakingnews and its 1.4 million followers.BNO has made waves since it first appeared, often breaking news before its mainstream competitors. When we profiled BNO and its 19-year-old foun...
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Later today, Google plans to unveil its own smartphone, the Nexus One. According to new data from research firm Forrerster's new U.S. Omnibus Survey, Google is launching this phone at just the right time. Today, 17% of U.S. adult who subscribe to a cell phone plan use smartphones. This number is...
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Recently I wrote about the decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news. I noted that while many people still use RSS Readers, usage has decreased due to the emergence of real-time and social flows of information via Twitter, Facebook and other such services. The post sparked a...
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The Android platform has grown exponentially since mid-2009, but December's stats show a particular factor that might help catapult the platform to greater heights of user adoption.In figures just released from mobile advertising company AdMob, the Droid singlehandedly boosted calls to their netw...
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FormSpring.com is a data collection and management system with a particular emphasis in online forms, registrations and surveys. And enterprise-level system, FormSpring.com might seem rather dry to anyone but an online retailer or event coordinator.FormSpring.me, on the other hand, has tapped the...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the privacy and security implications of cloud computing. That could be quite an inquiry as the debate is still open about how to actually define cloud computing in the first place.SponsorThe investigation should raise some concerns with the en...
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You've probably never heard of Matt Mireles and Bjorn Liljequist but with a $4000 dollar budget and an engineering team paid in iPhones, the two already have Meebo founder Seth Sternberg as their advisor and praise from VC Fred Wilson. The duo's filtering service Speakertext will launch at tomor...
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While 2009 continued a downward trend as one of the worst recessions in U.S. history, the decline for venture-backed mergers and acquisitions has not been as severe as the dot-com bust in 2001 and 2002.New figures from the National Venture Capital Association show that in the last quarter of 2009...
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Intranets are becoming a higher priority for organizations. Intranet teams are growing in size, and the best of them are embracing new trends such as mobile accessibility and social networking.These are some of the findings from Jakob Nielsen's annual report on the top intranets for 2010. Compani...
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Shozu Goes to Critical Path - Cross Network Publishing Doesn't Seem to Be a Stand-Alone BusinessHours after high-profile Silicon Valley social aggregation service Seesmic announced that it acquired angel-backed cross-network publishing service Ping.fm, a much larger but similar deal was announced...
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Socialtext is saying it posted record quarter-over-quarter bookings growth in 2009, bolstered by social computing's growing presence in the enterprise.It's important to note that Socialext is reporting record bookings, not record revenues. The company does not disclose its actual revenues. It's h...
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The graying of the Facebook population seems to have continued according to new stats released today by iStrategyLabs. And while one might expect more of the site's now nearly 10 million users over the age of 55 to be Neil Young fans, his "Rock N' Roll Will Never Die" refrain seems to be falling ...
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Hype Machine, the smart, long-running MP3 blog aggregator, has posted its annual collection of the most-blogged about albums, songs and musical artists of the year. Once again, the project is a pleasure to consume and will unfold throughout the month of January. Top albums 50 through 41, Mumfor...
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Startups in the Boston area considering applying for TechStars Boston 2010 should bite the bullet and fill out that application today in order to receive an invitation to tomorrow's special meet and greet with TechStars mentors.The event, dubbed TechStars For A Day, will be held in Cambridge, Mas...
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Dan Zarrella has long impressed us with his discourses on the science of retweets as well as his psychoanalytic apps that scan and parse Twitter streams, one for general analysis and one for dreams.His latest project, TweetPsych for lists, is an enlightening and often amusing look at what your li...
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Dan Zarrella has long impressed us with his discourses on the science of retweets as well as his psychoanalytic apps that scan and parse Twitter streams, one for general analysis and one for dreams.His latest project, TweetPsych for lists, is an enlightening and often amusing look at what your li...
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Flixster just announced that it has acquired Rotten Tomatoes, the popular movie review site, from IGN Entertainment. IGN is a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Flixster is one of the world's most popular movie communities and currently features about 2.3 billion user ratings and revi...
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Smartphone users are becoming increasingly comfortable with using their phones to shop online. According to new data from Compete, about 37% of smartphone users have purchased something with their handset in the last 6 months. Among the most popular items that these users bought are music, books,...
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ComScore, a leading Web statistics provider, has joined with Flurry Analytics to provide a more complete picture on the who, what, when, where and how of our use of mobile media. Founded just over a year ago, Flurry has grown immensely and this move will only serve to boost its popularity.Flurry ...
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Seesmic has acquired Ping.fm, a status update service that allows users to update posts on over 50 social networks through SMS, mobile apps, IM services and 3rd party apps that support the service. Seesmic plans to integrate Ping.fm into all of its applications in the near future. In addition, Se...
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It's no secret that we at ReadWriteWeb have a lot of love for startups that make their homes outside Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.Over the last year, we decided to make a few videos spotlighting some unique, unexpected locations where startups thrive, where tech scenes are vibrant, where coope...
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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, what they do, and what they've been up to lately. Pay them a visit or...
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