Airtel, one of the largest Indian mobile operator, has just launched a service request code based Facebook service, using which Airtel customers can access Facebook without the need of a data connection on their phone. Based on Fonetwish which has been developed by U2opia Mobile, a social and mobile applications provider, this service makes...
Wait, Just How Big Is ShoeDazzle? (DMD)
Image: AP Yesterday top Silicon Valley VC Andreessen Horowitz, also known as A16Z, led a $40 million investment in ShoeDazzle, a “Netflix for shoes” startup. ShoeDazzle is best known for being sponsored by Kim Kardashian, but it seems to be a huge business. A16Z Partner John O’Farrell says the company has 3 million “members”,...
Startup Aims to Create Big Apps for Big Data
From left nPario’s Bassel Ojjeh, Cloudscale’s Bill McColl and bit.ly’s Hilary Mason at Structure Big Data What if you amassed petabytes of data and then realized you had nothing you wanted to do with it? It’s not enough to hoard data, or run basic analytics hoping for patterns; to create the true promise of...
The Future of User Interfaces: Data Visualization
A new iPad app launched this month called Planetary. It visualizes your music collection using the solar system as a metaphor and it’s visually stunning. It also seems gimmicky, at first glance. The concept is that stars are music artists, planets are albums and moons orbiting a planet are the album tracks. You can...
Will a Crackdown on Privacy Kill Big Data Innovation?
The issue of data privacy on the web gets a lot of attention, thanks to the practices of sites such as Facebook and Google, but the positive aspects of those companies’ data practices tend to get overlooked. Not only does data drive the overall experience of our favorite sites and services, but it also...
Build Semantic Web Search Tools with Sindice’s SIREn
This week the Semantic Web company Sindice released SIREn, a new semantic search plugin for Apache Lucene built on top of Apache Solr. “While Lucene has long offered these capabilities, its native capabilities are not intended for large semi-structured document collections (or documents with very different schemas),” the project website says. “For this reason...
Craigslist Adopting MongoDB
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. In a big win for MongoDB and its sponsor company 10Gen, Craigslist is...
Eventually, One Of These Updates Will Make Google News Not Suck At Tech News, Right?
For as long as I can remember, there has been one constant in tech news: Google News sucks at it. Now, that’s not entirely fair since Google News doesn’t actually provide any of their own content. Instead, they use the supposedly magical Google algorithms to curate others’ content from around the web. Still, there’s...
MOO Launches Business Card Creation Portal For Small Businesses
As Small Business Week gets underway in the United States, online business card creation service MOO is marking the occasion by launching a self-service portal for small businesses. MOO’s Business Services accounts are available to companies with at least 10 employees. They’re simply a way for small teams to order business cards for multiple...
Mono’s Not Dead Yet: New Startup Will Offer Support, Further Development
Earlier this month Attachmate laid off the developers working on Mono, an open source implementation of Microsoft .NET sponsored by Novell. Attachmate acquired Novell last year. Today Mono creator Miguel de Icaza announced the formation of a new startup to support the open source project: Xamarin. Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/mrO38jOILoA/monos-not-dead-yet-new-startup.php