At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon, a presentation on stage was very polished and caught our attention. Advise.ly provides peer-to-peer career advice on demand. It uses both the LinkedIn API and the Twilio API to first find people with the same career background and then initiate a phone call. The site is already live...
I started my adult life studying accounting and finance in Perth, Australia, dropping out to start my first tech company in 1999, raising millions in venture capital before my 22nd birthday, running the startup through the boom and bust of the early 2000s and well into the subprime meltdown before finally walking away from...
Why email will never die, Java is no longer needed, and what the new Kindle means for Amazon. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web – Location, App...
Looking back on the news of the last year, it’s hard not to feel uneasy about the enormous amounts of data lifted, altered and stolen by hackers. Every few weeks, it feels like another major company is compromised, whether it’s a cache of millions of Apple UDIDs, Dropbox email addresses, or LinkedIn passwords —...
Spotify is every bit a modern music service except for one thing: in order to use it on a PC or Mac, you have to download an application. That may be no big deal for users of smartphones or tablets (who seem to enjoy Spotify’s mobile apps), but it’s still a little weird on...
The Next Web is at IBC in Amsterdam, interviewing the companies shaping the future of TV and online video. Yesterday morning we received a tip-off that we really had to talk to French startup Spideo, a company developing technology to recommend content relevant to your tastes and based on your social connections. Spideo wants...
They say you should never judge a book by its cover: sage advice from back in the day. But now, mobile apps are often judged by their icons and interfaces; all it takes to make a bad impression is a dated design, no matter how useful or well-coded your app is. Good design takes...
Ever since I started in the design game more than 15 years ago, the stylus has been on the verge of death, or on the verge of a comeback depending on who you talk to. Thanks to the tablet, it seems the stylus is having a renaissance. If you do a search on Kickstarter...
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