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Meet the 13 Companies that Came Out on Top at Launch

By Mike Melanson / February 24, 2011 7:01 PM / Comments

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Nearly 50 companies have presented  over the past two days at Jason Calcanis' LAUNCH conference. We've seen everything from well-established companies like StackOverflow launch a job-finder service for its existing members to companies sign $100,000 deals on stage.

Now, it has come to an end and, like most things, a winner (or 13) has to be declared. Here's who came out on top.

RootsTech Challenges Developers to Mashup Family History

By Curt Hopkins / February 13, 2011 10:00 AM / Comments

rootstech_logo.pngThe RootsTech conference has challenged developers to mashup social media and family history APIs in the hopes that developers will recognize genealogy as rich area for exploitation.

Here's the challenge: use any open social media API, like from Flickr or Facebook, mash it up with any of the APIs from the five genealogy companies that offer them to create something which "demonstrates increased value to family historians."

RootsTech: The History of Your Family is in the Future

By Curt Hopkins / February 12, 2011 11:05 AM / Comments

rootstech_logo.pngI spoke with Jay Verkler, the CEO of FamilySearch International, in the Oak Room of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. We spoke about the future of technology in the practice of genealogy, an activity with a distinctly old-school reputation.

Verkler is not your average genealogist (whatever that is). His background is not spending sleepless nights knee-deep in 18th century census records. He's a graduate of MIT and spent most of his career in Silicon Valley, at companies including Oracle, Sales.com and push technology company inCommon, which he founded.

RootsTech: Genealogy Gets Wired to the Gills

By Curt Hopkins / February 11, 2011 10:31 AM / Comments

rootstech_logo.pngThe conference attendees crowded the hall of the Salt Palace to listen to a librarian who specializes in genealogy talk about online tools like the Internet Archive, Flickr and StoryCorps. There was hardly a seat free in a hall that held several thousand. Par for the course for a tech conference. So far.

What sets this conference apart is the average age, which can't have been below sixty, and the nature of the listeners, the overwhelming majority of whom are not developers or tech marketers, but genealogists.

Can't Miss Events for Social Media Week San Francisco

By Mike Melanson / February 8, 2011 3:45 PM / Comments
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How big is social media these days? Big enough to get its own week. This week is Social Media Week, if you hadn't heard, and its taking place in nine cities across the globe. It's a week-long extravaganza of free (or cheap) talks, roundtables, panels, happy hours and other events and we thought we would take a look and give our top five, must-attend events of the week.

Social Media Week is already in full swing, so if you're just getting started now, you've already missed out on a few must-see events, but there's still several days left, so fret not.

ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 15 Jan. 2011

By Abraham Hyatt / January 15, 2011 10:00 AM / Comments

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.

ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 8 Jan. 2011

By Abraham Hyatt / January 8, 2011 10:30 AM / Comments

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.

ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 25 Dec. 2010

By Abraham Hyatt / December 25, 2010 10:00 AM / Comments

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.

ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 11 Dec. 2010

By Abraham Hyatt / December 11, 2010 12:00 PM / Comments

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.

ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 4 Dec. 2010

By Abraham Hyatt / December 4, 2010 10:00 AM / Comments

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us.

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