Honestly, it's impossible to work in these conditions. I'm writing this from the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp ; a one-day event in San Francisco celebrating the joys of the 'real-time' web. Sounds awesome, right? It is. I've been on stage, heckling participants on the marketing panel, I've been Tweeting from the audience, I've been following the live-blogging of the panels. Generally I've been living...
Keith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project - Speedi.ly . What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from a URL, and analyzes it. It does this very fast and it outputs some key data. Speedi.ly tells you the language of the content, categorizes it (topics, keywords), and additional...
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The Web constantly changes and evolves. That, of course, is what makes the Internet so exciting, but it also means that finding older versions of a website is hard. The current push towards the real-time web is making this problem even more apparent. Memento , a project based at Old Dominion University, wants to make it easier to access older versions of a web page without having to go to the Internet...
Superfeedr announced seed investments from Betaworks and Mark Cuban. Superfeedr offers a service that grabs a variety of data sources, digests them, and regurgitates them into a standard format. Web developers pay for the plug-and-play service to build applications. High profile clients include Adobe, SixApart, and Posterous. Betaworks is a NYC-based web company that invests in real-time web, structured...
Long-time blogger and tech executive Anil Dash announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo New York that he's leaving publishing software company SixApart and will head a new technology incubator called Expert Labs . Expert Labs will be dedicated to connecting technology innovators ready to build tools with government officials who can put those tools to use in the public interest. It's a vision that differs...
Salesforce.com launched a social enterprise application here at Dreamforce today that will allow companies to create their own private, social networks and integrate with Twitter, Facebook and other social applications. Dubbed Salesforce Chatter , the application serves as a secure enterprise collaboration application and social development platform. Sponsor The application models social networks...
TechCrunch submits: By Leena Rao We’re here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s ( CRM ) annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting strong earnings Tuesday for the third quarter, launching a new version of their fastest growing product, Service Cloud 2; and...
We're here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting strong earnings yesterday for the third quarter, launching a new version of their fastest growing product, Service Cloud 2; and rolling out a lightweight contact manager for small...
Via an introduction by my friend Perry Hewitt, I had a chance yesterday to learn more about Chartbeart, the real-time web analytics product, from its GM Tony Haile. Chartbeat provides a tag-based tracking mechanism, dashboard, and API for understanding your...
The search industry has seen a lot of new engines developed moving towards a diversity of specific needs. Recently, "real time" search has been a hot topic with the use of social media in search. This week a new engine was launched by FacteryLabs - an search technology company founded by Paul Pedersen and Sean Gaddis who have worked at Google, Powerset, eBay, and Skype. The company has developed...
The British government is looking at ways of making all of its Ordnance Survey maps freely available online. Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the move this week at an event alongside the government's new 'information tsar' web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The government has been inspired by the success of crime mapping where "data openness" is helping citizens assess the safety of...
As well as a presenting at Online Information this year, I’m also moderating a session on The realtime web: Discovery vs. Search. To try and frame what I think this topic means to me, I jotted down a set of questions that I’m not sure I have any answers for that I hope will, at [...]
Watch out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw! Google’s coming: You can now read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts with Google Scholar. Expect an oligopoly (as in the legal research industry) to feel some pressure as Google rolls out another free and disruptive service. You can search by cases, topics or specific phrases. You can also explore how...
There is this inane belief that at some point the Internet will be everywhere accessible 24/7 no matter where you are or what device you might be using. Everything will be streaming video and instantaneous news all weaved together by the ever increasing real time web. It’s an illusion. A nice illusion but an illusion all [...]
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