CrowdConf is the first conference centered around the emerging field of crowdsourcing and the future of distributed work, discussing the rapidly democratizing and flattening of the global labor market. We have a free pass to give away to one lucky WWD reader. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
Next-gen biofuel developer Gevo inspired chatter in the greentech world last week when it filed its S-1, planning to raise up to $150 million in an IPO. But a Lux research analyst thinks Gevo will likely raise closer to between $80 million and $100 million. Read More »
Microsoft is getting Windows Phone 7 ready for release for the holiday season, and is making good on promises to bring Xbox Live integration to the smartphone platform. Xbox Live players will find quite a few games on Windows Phone 7 at launch, including popular titles. Read More »
Staying at a tech startup for more than four years — the default stock option vesting schedule — is a rare thing. But it seems notable that at 6-year-old Facebook many early and influential employees have moved on, and many of them recently. Read More »
Redbeacon is just a year and a half old, until recently was bootstrapped, and has deployed its local services marketplace in only one region. But something about what it’s doing makes people think the company’s on to something big. CEO Ethan Anderson explains the appeal. Read More »
In April, Apple saw the money to be had in targeted advertising, and announced it would take an ownership role for ads running on its mobile platform by creating iAd. However, marketers don’t seem to be finding the process of working with Apple very easy. Read More »
The iPhone has a great little camera, but it’s got serious limitations. Accurately capturing a scene with a wide range of light is nearly impossible…unless, of course, you resort to HDR. It’s a really simple process that anyone with an iPhone can pull off. Read More »
Where there’s an incredibly successful advertising campaign, there are the unavoidable imitators. Last month’s Old Spice social media domination meant that rip-offs of the Isaiah Mustafa ads were inevitable. And it’s a rare thing when the copy is as good as the original. Read More »
The big web infrastructure makeover which includes the rise of cloud computing has been an area of much focus for us. Now accompanying our industry-leading Structure conference, we are launching the Structure Blog to closely track what Nick Carr calls The Big Shift. Read More »
Today on the Net: analyst say bankruptcy might be imminent for Blockbuster, Adobe’s CEO says he doesn’t need Apple or the iPad to survive and Gene Munster says rumors of a $99 iTV could mean Apple could soon introduce out a connected TV. Read More »
At our Structure 2010 conference, Amazon CTO Werner Vogel delivered his the State of the cloud speech. He argued that cloud computing came of age in 2010, as companies transitioned from using cloud for some trial projects to full blown applications. Watch the video! Read More »
With Apple’s release of operating systems slowing down considerably, some are left to wonder if OS X has any life left to it. Snow Leopard was considered a release aimed at polishing the experience with significant under the hood changes, but what could be next? Read More »
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