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Digital Capital Week: It’s Coming to DC in June
Digital Capital Week: It’s Coming to DC in June: I am pleased to announce the creation of Digital Capital Week (DCWEEK), a 10 day festival in Washington D.C. focused on technology, innovation and all things digital in our nation’s capital. It's been something that has been on my radar of things to do since 2008. Glad to see it is coming to be.
ReadWriteWeb
Delicious Chrome Extension Early Beta Now Available
Bookmarking service Delicious has just rolled out a Google Chrome browser extension.
Like other Chrome extensions we love to play with, this one is lightweight, fast and useful. There's no bulky sidebar here. Bookmarks can be created and saved with a miniscule "TAG" button and they can be searched from Chrome's excellent omnibar. So, do you think this will prompt loyal Delicious users - many o...
Open Thread: Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?
Social media gurus: We all know one. If you're lucky, you know only one.
They are the attendees of tech parties, the "Twitter consultants," the armchair generals of the Internet, and their numbers grow by the day. Yet most of them couldn't distinguish a line of code from a badly punctuated haiku.tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/open_thread_should_social_media.php';tweetmem...
Phonebooth Launches Free Google Voice Alternative for Startups and Small Businesses
Phonebooth.com, a VOIP service for individuals and small businesses, just launched a free version of its service. Phonebooth, just like Google Voice and Ribbit Mobile, provides its users with a free local phone number that can be forwarded to any cell phone and landline. Phonebooth also offers voicemail transcriptions. What makes it stand out from it competitors, however, is that it offers an a...
SXSW 2010 for Web Celeb Stalkers
A ReadWriteWeb Guide
OMG! Kevin Rose just touched my shirt!
Don't lie - we know you get butterflies at the thought of bumping into iJustine or Robert Scoble at a tech conference. We've pulled together a nice little cheat sheet just for you, friends. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sxsw_2010_for_web_celeb_stalkers.php';tweetmeme_source = 'rww';Whether you want a simple ha...
Google Launches Apps Marketplace for the Enterprise
Google launched an application marketplace today comprised of services from third-party providers that integrate with the Google Apps ecosystem.
The news has been anticipated for some time. In particular, it shows how much Google is embracing open-standards and leveraging its search and Google Apps platform to attract third-party developers.
Sponsor
Google made the announcement at its Google ...
Twitter to Save Us From Ourselves & Phishing; More Is Needed to Make Innovation Safe & Viable
It never ceases to amaze me how many high-tech industry elites get ensnared in every Twitter phishing attack. (See our November story 7 High-Tech Twitter Users Who Fell for Phishing Scams) This evening Twitter announced that a new program will intercept links sent out by Direct Message and through email, checking to make sure they are safe. Phishing prevention is no small matter.
Twitter's ...
There is No Perfect VP of Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing are not the same thing. It's true they both deal with relationship management and it's true that neither of these job descriptions require hardcore engineering, but just because they're both in the realm of words over code does not mean that they are the same. At the risk of muddling your mind with HR jargon, the core competencies of a marketer are very different from those ...
Stickybits: Portal to Another Dimension or Graffiti for Nerds?
Seth Goldstein comes up with a lot of ideas. Some of them work and some of them don't. He was one of the original backers of Del.icio.us (bought by Yahoo), Etherpad (bought by Google) and Bit.ly (huge via Twitter). He was also President of the short-lived Attention Trust and built a browser plug-in that allowed people to track, manage and sell on the Chicago Board of Trade futures in their b...
Put.io Turns Torrents Into Streams [Invites]
It's services like Put.io that are behind why Google executives argue desktops will be irrelevant in three years, why Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is betting the bank on the cloud, and why storage stats for the newest gadget are becoming less and less important.Everything is going to the cloud.
Does it often feel like a waste of time to download something just to watch it once and then delete ...
For European Startups, New €6 Million Seed Fund Is A Step In the Right Direction
Early stage startups in Europe will be the primary beneficiaries of a new €6 million seed fund just announced by Berlin-based Team Europe Ventures. In the past we've talked about Europe's entrepreneurial woes, most notably a dearth of seed funding due to having a culture largely averse to taking risks financially. This new fund is a good step towards changing that trend and keeping more start...
WIRED Gadgets
Broadcast Video From Your Mobile
You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories
From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000
For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
A Closer Look at Sony's New Skin for Android Phones
Sony's new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola's MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.
HP's Windows 7 Slate Strikes at the iPad
HP is set to launch a new tablet that will strike back at Apple's iPad. The new HP slate is a sleek design, startling in its resemblance to the iPad but will offer Flash support.
Silicon Alley Insider
MySpace Co-Presidents' Not-So-Secret Turnaround Plan
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From USA Today: Facebook thumped it, and Twitter threatens it as a source for entertainment news and real-time searches.
But MySpace, nestled in the entertainment capital of the world, thinks it can survive — even thrive — as a repository for all things music, Avatar and Twilight for the under-35 crowd.
Read the rest of this story »See Also:“AOL Is Just As Much A Jour...
'The Daily Show' Could Be Coming Back To Hulu (VIA, GE)
Viacom's chief executive Philippe Dauman said Comedy Central's top TV shows may return to Hulu if it is willing to change its business model.
Viacom and Comedy Central recently pulled 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' from the online video site.
Read the rest of this story »See Also:Viacom Gutting Hulu By Yanking 'Daily Show' And 'Colbert Report'Hulu Looking At $5 ...
Bloomberg About To Fire A Bunch More People At BusinessWeek
The other shoe is about to drop at BusinessWeek.
Shortly after taking over the magazine, news giant Bloomberg pruned its staff by a reported 30% and made it known that another round of downsizing would come sometime before May.
Read the rest of this story »See Also:Another Real-Time Economic Indicator Is Rolling Over And Showing Contraction'The Daily Show' Could Be Coming Back To HuluThis ...
Steve Jobs Threatened To Sue Me, Too, Says Ex-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz
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What's it like to be at the other end of Steve Jobs' "sense of injustice" concerning the theft of Apple's intellectual property? (The way Google and HTC are.)
Read the rest of this story »See Also:CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Is Armed To The Teeth With Patents Compared To Google, HTC The 20 Patents Apple Hopes Will Crush Its Smartphone Competition15 Features Apple Must Build Into iPhone OS 4
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On Android, MySpace Reigns Supreme
From Mashable: Despite CEO drama, plummeting traffic and even declining mobile website usage, MySpace Mobile for Android is the most popular social app in the Android Market and the third most popular downloaded application overall.
Continue reading at Mashable »Join the conversation about this story »See Also:New York Times Rolls Out New 'Real Estate' iPhone AppNew York Times' Book...
The 10 Best Entries In YouTube's Contest For Aspiring Journalists
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YouTube announced 10 semifinalists in its Project: Report amateur journalism competition today.
YouTube is running Project: Report in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. Of these 10 semi-finalists, 5 will receive $10,000 grants for international journalism projects with Pulitzer.
Click here to check out the 10 winning videos →
Learn more about the final round below:
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Mercedes-Benz S400 HYBRID Sedan Presents: INNOVATION
We're thrilled to welcome back Mercedes-Benz as a sponsor of Business Insider. Last week, we gave you an interactive tour of the S400 HYBRID Sedan.
This week, Mercedes is sponsoring Business Insider's series of interviews with green-tech leaders on the topic of innovation.
We're launching clips from the first interview today: Jim Gordon of Cape Wind. Jim sits down with Henry Blodget to d...
How To Use Google's New (Free) Photo-Editing Tool, Picnik (GOOG)
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Last week, Google continued its frenzied buying spree by acquiring Picnik, a Flash-based site that lets you edit photos in the cloud, without even signing up for an account.
Picnik had roughly 20 employees, and a few million monthly users. While there has been no word on the purchase price, this surely isn't much of a risk for Google.
Picnik and Google are something of an odd match, how...
Technology Review
Patching the Security Update Process
Security firm aims to make installing updates as painless and invisible as possible.
Recent research shows that the typical PC user needs to install a security update roughly every five days in order to safely use Microsoft Windows and all of the third-party programs that typically run on top of it. In response, a Danish computer security firm says it will soon debut a free new service that si...
Gasifying Biomass with Sunlight
A solar-driven process could yield far more fuel than conventional biomass production.
Sundrop Fuels, a startup based in Louisville, CO, says it has developed a cleaner and more efficient way to turn biomass into synthetic fuels by harnessing the intense heat of the sun to vaporize wood and crop waste. Its process can produce twice the amount of gasoline or diesel per ton of biomass compared to...
Faster Healing for Severe Fractures
A simple method uses stem cells from bone tissue to repair serious injuries quickly and cheaply.
A new surgical procedure can repair severe bone injuries and defects more quickly and simply than current methods, which include bone-grafting operations and lengthening procedures that involve inserting pins through the skin to pull bones together.
Mapping the Malicious Web
Analyzing the connections between sites could help spot Web attacks.
Over the past couple of years, cybercriminals have increasingly focused on finding ways to inject malicious code into legitimate websites. Typically they've done this by embedding code in an editable part of a page and using this code to serve up harmful content from another part of the Web. But this activity can be difficult ...
Catalysts for Plastic Recycling
Chemical process can recycle PET bottles at lower temperatures.
A plastic bottle tossed in the recycling bin may end up being shredded and reused to make a sweater or a carpet, but it won't be turned into another water bottle. At least not so far. Catalysts being developed by researchers at IBM and Stanford could make it cost-effective to break down polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, plastics ...
A Vision for Personalized Medicine
Genomics pioneer Leroy Hood says a coming revolution in medicine will bring enormous new opportunities.
Leroy Hood has been at the center of a number of paradigm shifts in biology. He helped to invent the first automated DNA sequencing machine in the 1980s, along with several other technologies that have changed the face of molecular biology. And in 2000, he founded the Institute for Systems Bi...
Blog - How to Build a Superluminal Computer
Physicists have come up with a way to process information faster than the speed of light. But what could they do with such a hypercomputer?
The speed of light represents one of the fundamental limits of the laws of physics. Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, right?
Blog - Software tells Bloggers What Readers Want
IBM has created a widget that crowd-sources ideas for blog posts.
Blogging
often sounds like a great idea: sharing thoughts and expertise, becoming a part
of a community, and taking the first few steps to wider recognition as a writer.
But many bloggers quickly get disillusioned.
Getting More from Location Data
Companies are working to add value to geospatial information.
Thanks to smart phones and other mobile devices, the number of applications that make use of geolocation data is exploding. But developers and device makers face new challenges that include determining physical location accurately, turning coordinates into meaningful information, and protecting users' privacy.
Ultra-Efficient Gas Engine Passes Test
A novel fuel-injection system achieves 64 miles per gallon.
Transonic Combustion, a startup based in Camarillo, CA, has developed a fuel-injection system it says can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by more than 50 percent. A test vehicle equipped with the technology gets 64 miles per gallon in highway driving, which is far better than more costly gas-electric hybrids, such as the Pri...