We often talk about engagement, conversation and two-way communication when it comes to using social networks. While we’ve not changed our collective TNW minds about the necessity for these things, we’ve all run into that point where you’re distracted from your work by that constant stream of information coming through Twitter. It’s with this...
Suddenly, the likes of Shazam and SoundHound are set to have a lot of competition. The Echo Nest is a ridiculously smart ‘music intelligence’ company, offering products that help developers and media companies build rich music data into their apps and products. Now it’s partnering with 7digital and MusicBrainz to launch what amounts to...
The Echo Nest, a music intelligence startup whose technology that powers many music apps from media companies or independent developers, this morning announced the release of an open-source music identification service dubbed Echoprint. The Echo Nest teamed up with 7digital, a London-based digital media delivery company, and MusizBrainz, to launch with a catalog of...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Last week at Salesforce’s Boston Cloudforce event, CEO Mark Benioff is moving on...
Hot on the heels of Loopt’s announcement that it is moving into the daily deals space with U-Deals, a young startup called Ringleadr is chiming in with its own user-generated deals service. Rather than fall back on deals that are already being offered through the hundreds of deals sites across the Web, Ringleadr wants...
When Onavo, the app that promises to save you money on your mobile data bill, launched at The Next Web Conference in April, it caused quite a stir among our Internet-hungry readers. There was one thing wrong with it though – it was iPhone-only. There’s good news though, Onavo has stayed true to its...
Hulu’s board of directors has hired investment banks Guggenheim Partners and Morgan Stanley to consider options for a sale of the online video startup, according to the Los Angeles Times. The possibility of a sale comes after reports of an unsolicited bid from Yahoo, and suggests that the broadcasters who own the site may...
Enterprises that express unwillingness to use cloud services are probably already using the cloud — they just don’t realize it. So said NetApp founder and EVP Dave Hitz at GigaOM’s Structure conference on Wednesday. Hitz cited a survey which reported that 10 percent of respondents said their organizations would never use the cloud, with...
An employee of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been caught using ABC servers to mine for Bitcoins, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. New Bitcoins are generated through “mining” — a process that takes time and a lot of CPU power. As more Bitcoins are generated, the network self-regulates, producing fewer coins over time, and...
Local Chinese press Southern Weekend reports that China is building a ‘cloud computing’ Special Administrative Region (SAR), a special hi-tech industrial zone for tech companies and startups to have complete, uncensored access to the Internet. The Cloud SAR is a RMB 1 billion ($US 154m) project being built in Chongqing, south-western China. Perhaps the most noteworthy feature...