I was just such a big dork myself until this afternoon. Pinterest, it seems, is one of the hottest new startups online – growing fast, piling up almost 10,000 glowing reviews for its iPhone app and now reportedly raising a large sum of money at a 4x pre-money valuation. Perhaps the fact that you...
Social media is a timeless form of communication in that it can be very easy to forget where in the world all the social contributions come from. For example, 5PM here in San Francisco is 4am in Abu Dhabi, but because social channels like Twitter move in real time, social contributors often overlook the...
While none of these third options universally blows Safari out of the water (for most users anyway), there are a number of things that each one does very well and that Apple would be wise to make note of. 1. The Web is Social Now. Make Sharing Easy. By far the most shocking limitation...
I’m a huge fan of the various games in the tower defense genre that have made their way to the iPhone ver the past couple of years. Plants vs. Zombies is a perennial favorite when I have some time to kill and the renowned geoDefense is always a safe bet. Now the creator of...
The internal (private) chat room for the ReadWriteWeb staff is always buzzing on some nerdy topic or another, and today was not any different. Earlier this morning, as we all chatted about Jon’s post on the recent Chrome update, the discussion led us to do a quick and informal survey of web browser usage....
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Let’s go back to the Keys to the Conference from the start of the week, and see whether we picked up on anything close to what we were expecting: Metro vs. Aero, and ne’er the twain shall meet. The borderline between Metro apps, or “Metro-style apps” (speakers this week were explicitly told to include...
Um, oh hey guys, what’s up? Nothing much over on my side, except that I’d really like a Diet Coke. Also, I’m hearing that nascent photo sharing app née blogging platform Posterous is raising some money. So yeah that’s what’s up over here in my neck of TC HQ. Chew on this if you’re...
Did you know that nearly half of migrants worldwide are women? Well, once you know that, it’s only natural that the gringos in Latin America we wrote about last week have female counterparts, who are just as busy as they are creating and supporting startups. Here are some women you should definitely know: Nathalie Trutmann...
As one thin-film solar company falls (Solyndra), another one is scaling up. Silicon Valley startup, Stion, on Friday officially opened the doors of its factory in Mississippi, marking a milestone for the company as it seeks to expand production quickly in an increasingly competitive market. San Jose-based Stion makes solar panels that use copper,...