March 11, 2010
After waiting on line just about 90 minutes to get my badge, I was able to pick up the exciting SXSW 2010 schwag bag. The bag always contains tons of paper and a variety of small trinkets. I actually wish the bag was full of trinkets and would have no paper. I seriously wonder how many people look at the cards in the bag and then go visit the listed websites. This is our fourth...
Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW.We're excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter's Geolocation API Makes Possible and...
Facebook has begun sending out invitations to f8 developer event to press and other important attendees this evening. Registration is now open for all attendees, with the cost being $325 for general admission and $50 for students. The registration page also illustrates how Eventbrite’s newly...CNN president Jon Klein said yesterday that the competition he fears the most comes from social media sites rather than rival cable news channels: “I’m more … More»
TechStars is an early stage venture fund based in Boulder, Colorado. ReadWriteWeb was given an early peek at historical results data on TechStars companies, which the organization is about to release. The data shows acquisition and failure rates, as well as how many of the TechStar companies have gone on to receive angel or...
A new Facebook group set up by Greenpeace is calling for Facebook to use 100 percent renewable energy within their data centers. This is a reinvigorated movement from the initial backlash against Facebook’s environmental policies at the beginning of February. The latest group has over 150,0A...
This week geo-crazy mavens were pleased to hear of location-based updates to Facebook, the launch of Foursquare analytics and of course yesterday's news of...
