new york city - ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/feeds/tag/new york city en Copyright 2012 Richard MacManus readwriteweb@gmail.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:04:00 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.35-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web 3.0 Conference: Real-World Value from Semantics and Analytics Web 3.0 ConferenceEditor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products.

From May 19th to 20th, mediabistro will hold its Web 3.0 Conference in New York City at the New Yorker Hotel. The conference focuses on the semantic web, mashups, text and data analytics, and how they add real-world value to end users and businesses.

]]> The last phase of the web, which has been referred to as Web 2.0, was more about AJAX-driven interactivity and social media. The Web 3.0 conference focuses on technologies that make the Web and data management substantially smarter.

Keynote speakers at the conference include:

  • Christine Connors, Global Director of Semantic Technology Solutions, Dow Jones;
  • Aza Raskin, Head of User Experience, Mozilla Labs;
  • Thomas Tague, Calais Initiative Lead, Thomson Reuters;
  • Loren Grossman, Global Chief Strategy Officer, Rapp/Omnicom.

While some think of Web 3.0 as an almost science-fiction-like intelligent Web, the truth is that a lot of here-and-now technology can make your Web and corporate applications smarter and more profitable. This includes everything from extracting insights from customer behaviors to serve them better, to breaking down the corporate information silos spread throughout your company so that your business information can become actionable insights.

The next generation of the Web is about leveraging the massive amounts of information you have or intend to collect or find available on the Web to make more profitable, efficient businesses and services. This concept will be one of the major drivers of profit as we push past the "2.0" generation and seek the "what's next" of the Internet.

For more details and to register for the conference, visit www.web3event.com. ReadWriteWeb readers save 15% with the discount code XRWW. For best available rates, register by 29 April 2009.

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]]> The NYC Seed fund is a joint venture between ITAC, New York City Investment Fund, The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation, New York City Economic Development Corporation, and PolyTechnic University. In addition to investing up to $200,000 per startup, the fund aims to give entrepreneurs support via a network of "notable entrepreneurs, technologists and venture capitalists," and plans to help the companies it funds seek series A round funding when they reach that stage.

NYC Seed says that it encourages first time founders to apply for seed funding, but also looks for teams with "technically savvy" members who "possess a proven record of completing complex technology projects." The fund aims to invest in small, local teams that have a prototype of their software or web app product ready to demonstrate. Startups that aren't located in New York City will be required to move.

The fund currently has $2 million under management.

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