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  Infographic: Dragons' Den statistics

  7th September 2010 10:22

  Infographics, which show statistics as images, are springing up all over the internet. The latest concerns entrepreneurial television show Dragons' Den and reveals some interesting data in terms of how much money has been invested and which Dragon has been willing to take the biggest risks. You can see the infographic below. Dragons' Den Infographic created by Promotional Codes.  

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  Google TV Developer Platform: What Can We Expect?

  7th September 2010 05:00

  In May, Google announced a new Internet TV product called Google TV. As we noted at the time, the most interesting aspect of the announcement was the developer ecosystem that Google is introducing to television. Google TV will not just allow you to view television programs and online video content, it'll also give you access to Internet TV applications built using Google's mobile operating system Android. Google is positioning itself as an Internet TV platform, despite not offering a hardware…

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  Build Project Management Gantt Charts With Gantto

  7th September 2010 04:30

  Anybody who's ever managed a project, whether online or off, knows how invaluable a Gantt chart can be. For project managers looking for a Web-based alternative to the industry standard Microsoft Project for creating Gantt charts, one option might be Gantto, a Y Combinator-funded startup that recently went into private beta. Sponsor Gantto offers an intuitive UI for building out and editing Gantt charts, from the most basic to the rather complex. To make things easy for those who have…

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  Giant Wooden Pointers at University Remind Students to Check In on Facebook

  7th September 2010 03:50

  It's always a little funny to me when I see "Find us on Facebook!" written on church marquees and signs on coffee shop counters. But the University of Kentucky has taken this real world hyperlink concept to the next level. The school has built huge wooden sculptures shaped like Facebook's teardrop pointer and map logo to remind students to check in around campus using the new location feature, Facebook Places. The human-sized signs will inspire more buzz about the school…

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  Feeling Burned By the Press, Craigslist Hunkers Down

  7th September 2010 03:00

  The powers behind craigslist.org appear to have decided that withdrawal is the best strategy to deal with recent controversy around the "adult services" section of the site. Last week, craigslist shut down "adult services," which normally features paid advertisments for sex. "Adult services" was recently the subject of legal threats from 18 states, but it looks like it was media coverage that drove the people behind craigslist underground. Craigslist has not responded to any media inquiries since the shutdown. Sponsor…

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  Did Your Startup Get Work Done This Labor Day?

  7th September 2010 01:30

  In a post last week about how to measure the effectiveness of startup employees, we mentioned that perhaps the number of hours worked isn't the best metric. With that said, this weekend was Labor Day weekend in the U.S., one of the more popular get-out-of-town weekends of the entire calendar, but does that apply for entrepreneurs and startups? Certainly there were some die-hards out there that refused to leave their desks this weekend, but we still wanted to know -…

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  How Open Data is Used Against the Poor

  7th September 2010 00:07

  Open data is all the rage these days, but is simply opening up aggregate public information for outside analysis enough to change the world for the better? A new article by Mike Gurstein, Editor of the influential Journal of Community Informatics argues that open data may merely make the rich richer and the poor poorer, unless the "open access" paradigm is extended with what he calls "effective use." Here at ReadWriteWeb, we often write about the potential for innovation created…

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  MySQL Diehard vs. NoSQL Fanboi: The Animated Movie

  6th September 2010 23:06

  The debate is often charged between MySQL proponents and those who are increasingly excited about NoSQL. So, it's good to see a bit of levity enter the discussion. Every once in a while we need to sit back and not take ourselves too seriously. That seems to be the intention of this video that we found on High Scalability. Sponsor Just be forewarned - this is NSFW. The video may be a bit harsh for some. The language is a…

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  Here They Come: The Android Tablet Invasion

  6th September 2010 22:14

  If you're in the market for a tablet computer but the iPad just doesn't do it for you, then just wait for the fall, as a number of Android alternatives are ready to hit the market over the next several months and there's something for everyone. A collaborative Google spreadsheet has been making the rounds on Reddit this morning and offers a list of nearly 20 Android tablets ranging from cheap to expensive, locked-down to hackable, and all easily comparable.…

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  How Push Notifications Will Change Twitter

  6th September 2010 20:50

  Are you ready to get buzzed by Tweets? Twitter confirmed last week that it is experimenting with and will soon roll out push notifications through its official iPhone app. What does that mean? It depends on how exactly the company lets users manage and receive their notifications, but it's not to early to start thinking about how push could change the Twitter experience. We asked a number of experts in the field of User Experience design what they thought about…