From Arabella Santiago in Events
Thank you to everyone who celebrated the first ever Techweek Concept Series yesterday in partnership with NAVTEQ NN4D. Please check out the videos on our Livestream channel if you missed the event. It was an amazing array of talent assembled at the NAVTEQ global headquarters in downtown Chicago to discuss the topic “The Agile Enterprise”. [...]
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Law and Data: A Brief Take on Business, Government Involvement and Self-Regulation
While a subset of bad actors has necessitated the need for government intervention in online privacy, the creation of voluntary mechanisms to address data management and user privacy could help to create a competitive privacy marketplace with a complimentary regulatory framework. Media has embraced the narrative of a necessarily adversarial relationship between user and platform. [...]
Techweek 2012: The Information Society
From Geoff Domoracki in Events
20 years ago we would not have guessed that the hottest technologies of the year 2011 would not be flying cars or clean energy but 140-character tweets. Somehow the ability to create digital information and push it to facebook, twitter, linkedin, blogs, newswires, ad networks, or any other digital application became the technologies that define [...]
Techweek: The Philosophy of Connectivity
From Geoff Domoracki in Data
Over the last 15 years, the hyperlink has proven to be an incredibly disruptive tool. On a website like Ancestry.com, a link on an online family tree can help an extended family member rediscover his/her genealogy and identity. A link via a tweet on Twitter to a photo documenting political unrest in Libya or the [...]
Chicago: A new innovation ecosystem?
From Geoff Domoracki in Innovation
Big Question: Is Chicago witnessing the emergence of a new innovation ecosystem? In less than 2 years, the Chicago technology and innovation ecosystem has seen an escalation of successful startup fundraising, growth and acquisitions. Chicago’s business and technology leaders now discuss how this represents a “new ecosystem” of tech in the city. I’ve had the [...]
How to Get your Startup Accepted to Excelerate Labs – Part 1
From Meagan Lopez in Startups
This is a two part series on the Excelerate Labs application process. Excelerate Labs is “an intensive summer accelerator for startups driven by proven entrepreneurs and investors. Led by world class entrepreneurs Sam Yagan (OKCupid, Sparknotes) and Troy Henikoff (SurePayroll), the program is unique in attracting dozens of mentors from around the country to work with [...]
AT&T Gambit to Keep Customers?
From Meagan Lopez in Mobile
With the recent availability of the Verizon iPhone, AT&T, the routinely lampooned wireless service provider for the iPhone has made one concession to try to win the hearts and minds of its fed-up customers. In an attempt to route what many are anticipating to be a mass customer defection, AT&T has started sending direct mail [...]
The Speed of Information During Crisis
From Meagan Lopez in Data
On Saturday, January 8th, a gunman in Arizona fired on a Federal judge, a Democratic Congresswoman, aides and many others. People are dead, others are seriously injured. At this point, most of us have already heard of the event. But, how did you hear about it, how quickly, and more importantly, how accurately? As far [...]
The Future of Media: Kindle or iPad?
From Meagan Lopez in Gadgets
The future of media for the coming decade was settled in 2010. Amazon and Apple have divided it up, and are taking no prisoners. Amazon will completely eat the traditional book market, and a fair chunk of the periodical world. Apple will control everything else, with an emphasis on breaking news. Why? The Kindle 3 [...]
Grooveshark: Free Music Forever?
From Meagan Lopez in Cloud
Grooveshark is an odd service. If you don’t know, Grooveshark lets you play music for free by allowing users to upload songs which it then streams to listeners. Alarm bells should be ringing if you know anything at all about the world of online music. What gives? How is Grooveshark still online and growing? Under [...]
YouTube’s Tipping Point?
From Meagan Lopez in News
“I’m so over YouTube.” Those were the words that smacked me in the face yesterday. A gaggle of teenage girls sat at the airport in front of the television watching Entertainment Tonight. Specifically, they were watching a piece about several YouTube videos where college kids dunk hoops in crazy places (off airplanes, jumping off cliffs, [...]
Merry Christmas from midVentures
From Meagan Lopez in Events
We’ve had quite a year, with both the midVentures25 and midVenturesLAUNCH conferences, and a host of great news coming out of Midwest startups. From high-profile funding rounds to whopping buyout offers from behemoths like Google, the Midwest has much to celebrate this holiday season. For those of you who have given your time and energy [...]
Is Social Media Unsocial?
From Meagan Lopez in Social Media
The biggest problem with “social media” is that it doesn’t always live up to its name. Physically, it can’t; psychologically, it won’t. I see how social media has opened up new possibilities for small companies in remote locations and connected like-minded people across the world. And I understand the excitement that follows viral media campaigns [...]
Are Android and Windows Phone 7 in a race to the bottom?
From Meagan Lopez in Business
If you listen to the pundits, Android may be in trouble. You see, now that Windows Phone 7 is out in the market, Microsoft is going to continue heavily discounting its handsets to grab market share, which will leave Android in a difficult spot, caught between the popular iPhone line and the (comparatively) cheap Windows [...]
No More No Wifi – A Traveler’s Manifesto
From Meagan Lopez in News
Dear Traveling Venues of the World – airports, hotels, hostels, car rental offices, buses, international terminals, hotels, airlines, airplanes: Be forewarned. Yes, be forewarned. We, the travelers of the nation, are sick and tired of not having functional wifi on the road, and we will not put up with it forever. While more and more [...]
Techweek Conference + Expo 2012
- Announcing New Speakers: Jason Fried and Matt Mickiewicz February 15, 2012Jason Fried, co-founder and president of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and Highrise, and co-author of the book Rework will return for an encore speaking session at Techweek 2012. Vancouver-based Matt Mickiewicz, co-founder of SitePoint, Flippa and 99designs, which pays out over $1,000,000 … Read More » […]
- SessionCast Closes on Feb. 16 February 15, 2012Did you cast your votes yet for the best session submissions at the Techweek 2012 Conference & Expo? Over 500 sessions were submitted this year! Make sure to pick your favorites and tell your friends, fans and followers. Every tweet, … Read More » […]
- SessionCast Voting Ends Feb. 16 February 10, 2012Did you cast your votes yet for the best session submissions at the Techweek 2012 Conference & Expo? Over 500 sessions were submitted this year for approximately 200 session slots. Make sure to pick and choose your favorites and tell … Read More » […]
- Don’t miss out: Techweek hits Austin for SXSW February 10, 2012Celebrate innovation, technology and startups with Techweek in Austin, TX, at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Together with New World Ventures, Techweek is hosting one unforgettable night on Mon., March 12, at Copa Bar & Grill, from 8:00 pm … Read More » […]
- SessionCast is Now Open for Techweek 2012: Vote for Your Favorite Sessions through Feb. 16 February 2, 2012Read, vote and share what you would like to see at the Techweek 2012 Conference & Expo. The brand new Techweek SessionCast voting platform goes live today. So go ahead and tell us your picks for the best submitted panels … Read More » […]
