Factual, a new open data project founded by Gilad Elbaz, just launched its public beta today. Elbaz's last company, Applied Semantics, was acquired by Google in 2003 and became one of the core component of the search giant's AdSense contextual advertising product. Factual, which is mostly geared towards developers, is somewhat similar to Freebase, though Factual allows for a more free-form approach to building a database than Freebase. Factual provides users and developers with tools to create, contribute and mash up open data on any subject.
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Factual also announced that Esther Dyson has joined the company's board of advisors. Full story...
The talk of the venture capital and entrepreneurial towns these days is the Open Angel Forum which after its second event in Boulder, Colorado is now announcing two more events in New York and San Francisco.
Today Amazon Web Services announced the availability of a new feature of their Simple Storage Service (S3).
Google Wave, the maddeningly confusing yet highly innovative real-time collaboration tool, will become a member of Google's online office suite Google Apps later this year.
Last month, Google received high praise from human rights supporters after threatening to exit the Chinese search market, claiming it was no longer comfortable with censoring search results per government demands.
These days, the words "social media campaign" are on the lips of everyone around, from media professionals to small business owners to college students in coffee shops.
From time to time, we look at how Enterprise 2.0 practices are reaching into companies.
A recent post by Michael Idinopulos demonstrates how the premises for finding Enterprise 2.
Youth social networking researcher dana boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them.
If you've been a geek your whole life then you understand the term "Canadian girlfriend." The Canadian (or sometimes British) love interest is the person you talk about when a member of the opposite sex inquires about your dating status.
Green Goose is a new financial management service that launched today, which connects sensor activity to your savings account.
Between Y Combinator's Startup School, the influx of seed fund incubators, the list of legendary mentor / investors and the dotcom bust's school of hard knocks, is there really any reason to go to grad school? At ReadWriteWeb we're supportive of lifelong learning and universities that coach entrepreneurs, but a recent post by Venture Hacks founder Naval Ravikant has us wondering, "What is the value in grad school?"
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Ravikant suggests that incubators and accelerators like YCombinator and Techstars are the new grad school.