We're excited to announce that our latest premium research report will be available for download on Monday! Titled The Real-Time Web and Its Future , the report is a broad and deep look at the emerging world of real-time technology on the web. Based on interviews with 50 companies, engineers and executives building or leveraging real-time technology - the subtitle of this report could very well be...
photoWALL, a showcase of mobile devices, real-time web technology and user-generated content, announced today it is available to all Palm Pre and Palm Pixi customers worldwide as a free download in the Palm Beta App Catalog. photoWALL enables an unlimited...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- photoWALL, an exciting new showcase of mobile devices, real-time web technology and user-generated content, announced today it is available to all Palm® Pre(TM) and Palm Pixi(TM) customers worldwide as a free download in the Palm Beta App Catalog. photoWALL enables an unlimited number of media channels (or WALLs) and displays them live on photowall.com....
Popularity tracking website ://URLFAN has ranked Wikipedia the most popular and influential website of the year for the second year running. Measuring websites not on their traffic but on blog mentions, Wikipedia has come out on top with the likes of YouTube, Flickr and Twitter not far behind. The list shows how influential social media and user-generated content is on the internet at the moment,...
LeWeb, the major European conference (the equivalent of the Web 2.0 Summit in North America), just released their complete schedule for the next event happening in Paris on December 9 and 10. The theme of the conference is the real-time Web. As I wrote about a month ago, I’ve been selected as one of their official bloggers. Here are the [...]
LeWeb has published its schedule for the upcoming global conference for tech in Paris, and it's looking pretty good. TechCrunch Europe is a media partner and is helping to organise the startup competition, so that's our interest declared. That said Loic and Geraldine Le Meur have clearly finessed the event back towards tech companies and brought a new focus on Europe I think. Here are some highlights...
If your job requires you to have your finger on the pulse of an industry, then you should take note. Curated feed community, Collected offers users a great option for aggregating the latest info from their favorite sites. First developed by Stockholm-based new media agency Great Works , Collected aggregates feeds from blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed and allows you to create fast web-based...
Convergence 2009: Report how 5 trends will transform the social sector View more documents from Fred Zimny. Related articles by Zemanta Understanding and Engaging Now Media (mountainrunner.us) Twitter’s Trending Topics: Feature or Bug? (siliconangle.net) Six Social Media Trends For 2010 (futurelab.net) 4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web (mashable.com) Mashable Trends Launches: A New Hub for...
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...
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...