It’s SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences – or just sick and tired of hearing about them – but if you’re in New York City this week, don’t miss what’s sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb’s Richard MacManus. How do you like your events calendar?
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
These days there are just so many great technology projects around it is difficult to focus for too long on one. For the past few weeks I have been heads down working with Chatter: producing articles, demos, and talking with developers.
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Chatter & Google Wave. So many possibilities.
Editor’s note : This guest post is written by Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com .
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The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped
Every one of our blog posts around here is like a delicate, magical snowflake that we nurture lovingly (if quickly) before we push it out the door into the harsh lonely world of the web. Many of them are well received (otherwise we couldn’t do this for a living) but sometimes we write something we’re really proud of and it just melts into the river of news without being read by as many people as we wished. Thus we present to you, our staff’s hand-picked posts this week that we think you may have missed but would likely enjoy quite a bit: Sponsor Frederic Lardinois has been covering the e-book market closely for months
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7 Precious Snowflakes That Almost Melted Away (Our Favorite Low Profile Stories This Week)
Small cap hell is where you end up in about six months after your IPO, when all the high fives and champagne have receded into a distant memory. Unless your company is big enough. How big is big enough?
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Is XBRL The Key To Escaping Small Cap Hell?
Let me get this out of the way: I love apps. I love apps that serve big purposes and I love apps that serve extremely small niches
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There’s an Evangelist for That
Let me get this out of the way: I love apps. I love apps that serve big purposes and I love apps that serve extremely small niches.
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There’s an Evangelist for That
It’s rare when you will see a post in this blog about Saas and its place in the financial markets.
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SaaS Report: Is Salesforce.com Over or Under Valued?
This guest post is written by Marc Benioff , chairman and CEO of salesforce.com . I quit my job at Oracle in 1999 because I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Amazon.com?” Why couldn’t applications be run from a simple website, without software or hardware to install, and pricy consultants to hire? Why couldn’t we just compute in the Internet, or the cloud, and get away from the data center and all its complexity
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The Facebook Imperative
People in the industry debate it, study it and even attend conferences on it. At saleforce.com , we are realizing it: Real-time enterprise collaboration.
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