As a way of keeping up with the times and maintaining more efficient student administration, colleges and universities across the United States have decided to create their own tailored social networking sites, with the help of a couple of tech-savvy startups.
Having an official fan page on Facebook is great for creating a niche for students, [...]
Regardless of the social or political landscape of today, Israelis continue to push, and occasionally break through, the boundaries of technology. And nowhere is the euphemism of exceeding limits more apt than in Tel Aviv University, where new nano-based technology is poised to make computers and the Internet hundreds of times faster.
This project is being [...]
Filed under: News on May 12th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: innovation, internet, israel, Technology
Mark Fletcher is the online startup genius who created and developed two major online products that have revolutionized the way that people use the internet. Bloggers and web journalists around the world are wondering whether he has done it again with the new startup company called SnapGroups.
Before Yahoo! Groups, there was no easy way for [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on May 10th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, innovation, internet, start-up, Technology, web
Many people see search engines as the hub of their Internet experience. However, there’s a new way to go about surfing the Net that caters to the more specific task of tracking updates that pertain to a certain topic of interest, such as an event, an RSS feed or an item for sale.
On Yotify.com, users [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on April 27th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: innovation, internet, Technology
A strange evolution of concepts has led to the recent presentation of a prestigious philanthropy award to actor Kevin Bacon for his non-profit called Six Degrees.
The idea behind the Six Degrees of Separation (also known as the “Human Web”), is that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else through six or fewer levels [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on April 19th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, internet, philanthropy
With more than 2,000 Internet movers and shakers, the LeWeb conference in Paris is the ideal venue for start-up ventures hoping to attract the investment and attention that could propel them to the next level.
A series of kiosks across the conference arena – a giant arts complex converted from a deserted morgue – saw hordes [...]
Filed under: News on December 16th, 2009 @ 11:37 am
Tagged with: Business, high-tech, innovation, internet, Internet commerce, start-up
According to a recent survey conducted by Forrester’s Technographics, U.S. online giving to nonprofits will top $4 billion this holiday season, with more than 111 million people saying they plan to give via the Internet.
The Omnibus Online survey found that more than 63% of American online consumers plan to donate to a charity of their [...]
Filed under: News on December 9th, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
Tagged with: charity, economy, internet, philanthropy
In April, Credit Suisse analyst Spencer Wang estimated that YouTube would cost Google $470 million in 2009. The video streaming site would bring in $240 million, he reported, but cost $710 million to upkeep ($360 million of which is bandwidth costs). The site was, and is a “cash sinkhole,” Wang now famously proclaimed.
Today, Google has [...]
Filed under: Business, Technology, Uncategorized on October 9th, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
The TechCrunch conference recently took place and its worthwhile event that I try to follow every year. It seems the big trend to emerge this year is around sites that provide consumer ratings and services. In essence, these sites are looking to merge phone book style listings with greater utility.
To that end, start-up Redbeacon.com took the top [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on September 18th, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
Tagged with: consumer, entrepreneurship, innovation, internet, local, online, Redbeacon.com, San Fransisco, search, service, tech crunch, Technology
Some interesting insights coming from Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch today, discussing what he refers to as “The Revenue Dilemma” for internet start-ups like Twitter, that innovate and suddenly dominate an emerging market. Though we often joke about wildly popular companies that lack any means of generating cash flow, the paradox that these businesses often [...]
Filed under: Business, News on September 9th, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
Tagged with: Business, free, innovation, insights, internet, markets, monetize, networks, revenue model, revenue streams, service, start-up, sustainability, Twitter
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.