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| Jan 21, 2011 | Brickify: Turn Any Image Into A Lego Statue! | Everyone loves Legos. There is no debate. In fact, there may only be one thing better than Legos: customized Legos. And a new web service aims to provide those to all.
Brickify is a website that allows you to put in the URL to any image on ... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | The guide to getting a base in Silicon Valley for your European startup | In what is possibly the best presented and above all realistic exposition I’ve yet seen on what it’s like to extend a European startup into Silicon Valley, Andy McLoughlin, co-founder with Alastair Mitchell, of Huddle, socked it to the crow... |
| Sep 5, 2010 | 6 SaaS Metrics You Should Track | As you work to develop your product – before and after launch, it’s important that you use more than just “gut feelings” to ascertain what’s working and what’s not. Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offere... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | What Exactly Does Twitter Want Us To Fly To? | Earlier this year, Twitter got into the event business for the first time with Chirp, a developers conference they put on in San Francisco with the help of Carsonified. Obviously, they’ll be doing another one of those next year. But has the... |
| Jun 27, 2010 | Top 5 Reasons Why Your Startup Needs an API | There is a long list of things people will tell you that you need as a startup: You need a working product. You need a business plan. You need a lawyer. You need a good coffee maker, a video game system, and beer on Fridays.
Here’s one more... |
| May 8, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 8 May 2010 | A few weeks ago was the Events Guide’s one-year birthday – and while we don’t know how many thousands of conferences, unconferences, seminars, summits and meetings we wrote about over the last year, we can say this: It was a heck of a lot. ... |
| May 1, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 1 May 2010 | We’ve been plugging it for months, and now it’s finally here: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. It’s not too late to sign up. We’d love to have you join us. It’s going to be the premier place to explore the latest mobile development tren... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | Check out 100 Things, a conference for startups, entrepreneurs and online marketers (VB discount included) | Make sure not to miss 100 Things, an online conference for entrepreneurs, startups and online marketers.
The idea is simple: Ten of the world’s most successful Internet startup founders sharing 100 powerful business secrets. If you’re build... |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Make Those Web Apps Run Fast! (Or At Least Fake It) | Back in February at the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in Miami, Union Square Ventures‘ Fred Wilson presented on his 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps. For those not fortunate enough to attend the conference, a video and tra... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | Twitter Sets Chirp Free… Well, Cheaper | There’s a lot of excitement about Twitter’s first conference, Chirp, which takes place next month in San Francisco. In fact, the tickets for the event, despite their $469 price, have been selling out quickly (they’ve been releasing them in ... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps | Here’s a video of the talk that I gave at Future Of Web Apps in Miami in late February. They finally posted it.
It’s about 30 minutes long. If you’d prefer to read the transcript, you can get that here.
The 10 Golden Principles of Successfu... |
| Mar 7, 2010 | Candid Camera | A couple weeks ago I went down to Miami for Future of Web Apps (FOWA). It was a great event and I highly recommend it to web developers and entrepreneurs. I did a keynote talk and the next day I did a three and a half hour workshop. I knew ... |
| Feb 20, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 20 February 2010 | This week’s calendar spans three continents, three countries, and who knows how many time zones. Looking for stuff to do in the next seven days? Miami is your best bet, with events on the future of Web apps and on early-stage funding.
How d... |
| Feb 13, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 February 2010 | This week we added three new events to the ReadWriteWeb calendar – all of which are in San Francisco. That makes seven conferences in the Bay Area in the next three months. It also makes for a California events-plosion on our world map of W... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Despite The Price, Twitter's Chirp Tickets Selling Out "Within Hours." Another Batch Released. | The tickets for Twitter’s first official conference, Chirp, are selling quickly — despite the $469 price. Twitter is planning to release about 800 tickets for the event total but is putting them up for sale in waves. The first batch, about ... |
| Feb 6, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 6 February 2010 | Looking for conferences this month in warm locations? We’ve got a bunch of ’em in Florida and California. Tired of your hometown’s balmy winter weather? We’ve got you covered, too, with events in New York City. Look at that – who says you c... |
| Jan 30, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 30 January 2010 | There are 15 events in five countries and on three continents in February. Lucky for you, four of them have discounts for ReadWriteWeb readers. Conferences, roundtables, and if you’re in San Francisco, free tacos from the famous El Toynaens... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Platform Wars: Twitter's Chirp Conference Will Take Place A Week Before Facebook's f8 | Back in December at Le Web, Twitter Director of Platform Ryan Sarver announced that Twitter would be holding the first conference of their own in 2010. Today, they’ve unveiled the details. Called Chirp, the conference will take place April ... |
| Jan 23, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 23 January 2010 | This week we added six new events to the calendar, including one conference that has a cow in a space helmet for a logo. Seriously.
How do you like your ReadWriteWeb events guide? As a world map? As a downloadable iCal (and Google importabl... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | Twitter Crows About Chirp, Its Official Developer Conference | Today at Le Web in Paris, Ryan Sarver (a participant in our RealTime CrunchUp last month), Twitter’s Director of Platform announced a new conference that will take place next year in San Francisco: Chirp.
The conference, which will be geare... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | Foursquare's Impressive Roster Of Angels Continue To Be Revealed. Latest: Kevin Rose | There was a lot of action surrounding the first seed round of funding for Foursquare, the location-based social network. From what we’ve heard, there were a number of investors upset that they couldn’t get in on the round, which was relativ... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | FOWA: The 2009 Web App Survey Results Are In | The results are in from the Web App survey we conducted in partnership with Carsonified.
As we post this, the results are being presented to the audience at the Future Of Web Apps conference in London. You can also view the results here.
Ne... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | FOWA is coming. Let's take a look at who's launching what this year | Carsonified‘s Future of Web Apps London 2009 will be held between 30 September and 2 October at Kensington Town Hall. There’s a day of workshops on day one, followed by the conference proper on 1 and 2 October, featuring speakers like Gary ... |
| Aug 11, 2009 | Help Us By Taking The 2009 Web Application Survey | The tough thing about being a startup is that no one is willing to share their numbers with you.
With that in mind, we’d like to announce the 2009 TechCrunch Web App Survey.
It’s an (optionally) anonymous survey where we can all share a bit... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | GeeknRolla – The Agenda for the day | Agenda: Geek’nRolla – Tech Startups Rock!
London – April 21, 2009
Geek’nRolla is sponsored by Viadeo one of the largest professional social networks in the world, and supported by UK Trade and Investment, as well as NESTA, the National Endo... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | Vodafone's Betavine R&D Lab introduces "easy as pie" Mobile Widget platform, developer contest underway | What do you get when you mix HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Opera, select cell phones (for now) and a Vodafone Group’s R&D lab, Betavine? Mobile Widgets!
For anyone who has ever wanted to develop a mobile web-app but lacked the specific technic... |
| Dec 9, 2008 | Is it Goodbye eBay France, or just au revoir? | This week I’m at the Le Web conference in Paris, which will hopefully come up with a few ideas about how tech/companies are going to weather the absolute Tsunami of Pain (closures, cost-cuttings, redundancies etc) which is currently crashin... |
| Sep 29, 2008 | DropSend sold – but how easy is it to flip a web app these days? | I’m a little late to this, but it is worth noting that events guru Ryan Carson – co-founder of the Carsonified conference and training company which does the rocking FOWA – recently sold his web app DropSend, some two years after putting it... |
| Jul 3, 2008 | How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt) | In this post, guest author Ryan Carson goes through some of the lessons learned from building a Web app in four days. Carson is the co-founder of Carsonified, a web shop in Bath, UK. They’ve built four web apps, created ThinkVitamin.com and... |
| May 2, 2008 | Coming to America: Getting visas to do business in Silicon Valley | One of the parlor tricks I like to perform when starting off any Silicon Valley talk or presentation is to ask the audience to raise their hand if they currently live in the area. Most people raise their hand. I then ask the people who were... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | Carsonified, which runs Silicon Valley-style UK events, attacks a UK startup trip to… Silicon Valley | Note: Please see update below.
It’s just morning here in SF so I have just seen this post. The below is my initial response, but I have to go offline imminently (I am in San Francisco on the trip in question) so I’m just rattling this off n... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Events news | I’m going to start a roughly weekly post about upcoming events I think you should be aware of. As many of them as possible will be relevant to startups, Web 2.0 and getting funding. Most of them will be UK/Ireland but some will be European ... |
| Jan 2, 2008 | Future of Web Apps has a US fan. In a bad way. | You’ve no doubt heard of The Future of Web Apps conference put on in London (and now other parts of the world) by UK entrepreneur / geek Ryan Carson (pictured) of Carsonified. I’d argue that it was his first FOWA London conference in the UK... |
| Dec 18, 2007 | 2008: VCs and startups get real across Europe | Over the last few weeks I have been going around talking to venture capitalists, mainly in London, with a view to trying to get some kind of forward visibility about the technology and startup market next year, especially the role of the VC... |
| Nov 5, 2007 | The Social Enterprise – What Works, and What Doesn’t | Last week in Reston, Virginia, the New New Internet conference took place, and the spotlight was on the adoption
of new social technologies in the enterprise. One morning panel was moderated by
Ryan Carson and featured Brad Feld, the Managi... |
| Oct 16, 2007 | News Dredge 161007 | • A rather odd event has crossed my desk in the shape of the London Startup Weekend on November 30- December 2: “Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance gather the tech community and create a company over one jam packed weekend.... |
| Mar 22, 2007 | Web Apps 101: Your Three Point Success Plan | Building a web app is easy. Building a successful and profitable web app is where most people fail.
In this new series of articles, I will share valuable strategies and tips for building successful web apps. I’ll be covering everything from... |
| Jan 3, 2007 | Anatomy Of A Failed Merger | DropSend founder Ryan Carson, who has been chronicling the ups and downs of the process of selling the company, writes a long post about how a deal fell through with YouSendIt. While it’s fairly unorthodox to tell the whole story as it’s ha... |