Investors work to place the right bets in health care
With growing investment in health care, the question remains: where are entrepreneurs focusing their efforts, and are they making a difference in the right spaces? Read more »
Women from Twitter, Gilt, One Kings Lane join NBCU’s new digital advisory board
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Women at NBCU, NBCUniversal’s female-targeted ad sales, marketing and research initiative, is launching a new digital advisory board called Women@NBCU. Members include Google’s Marissa Mayer, Twitter’s Chloe Sladden and One Kings Lane’s Alison Pincus. Read more at paidContent »
How Lanyrd went from Casablanca to conference circuit
Simon Willison is the ultimate nerd: He’s the face behind several important pieces of web technology and a developer who’s worked for some of the biggest names in the business. Now he and his wife are finding more success with events website Lanyrd. Read more »
Esther Dyson: Privacy Is a Marketing Problem
In light of recent outcry about social networking privacy lapses and potential misuse of users’ personal information, long-time web thought leader Esther Dyson had this to say at the marketing conference Pivot in New York City today: online privacy a marketing problem. Read more »
Got Ideas? Tech Companies Crowdsource Creativity With Contests
[qi:115] As the economic downturn has hammered companies’ advertising budgets, many businesses have turned to user-generated web content to get their messages out on the cheap rather than shelling out thousands of dollars to ad firms. Tech companies, including Amazon and Nokia, also are turning to […] Read more »
Palm Pre Losing Mojo Each Day the SDK is Held Close
Just yesterday, I was on camera saying how much I’m looking forward to the Palm Pre. With my first-gen iPhone contract up in July, I’m sure to get a new phone this summer. There’s still some open questions around the Pre, such as battery life and […] Read more »
Social Web's Big Question: Federate or Aggregate?
Inventor and tech-philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect. And just like that he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big question facing the social web depends on the direction it needs to take. A sharp increase in the number of web services and social networks has many of us yearning for a single sign-on, which has lead to the idea of “federation.” On the flip side, we also want one place to manage our diverse web services in one place. Read more »
