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Grovo How To Do SEO Video Series – ReadWriteWeb
Feb 8th
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Grovo How To Do SEO Video Series
ReadWriteWeb Today they have a new series with Zach Ciperski, the Director of SEO for EliteSEM and also serves as Vice President of CoffeeForLess.com. He has built sites for some major retailers and teaches SEO at New York University, among other places. Video: “Build an SEO Foundation” Excerpt |
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 21, 2012
Jan 21st
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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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 14, 2012
Jan 14th
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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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, January 7, 2012
Jan 7th
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Top 10 ReadWriteWeb Quotes of 2011
Dec 30th
An intern once asked me, what’s the difference between a “journalist” of my day and a “blogger” of his? I laughed and told him my day ain’t over yet. Then I followed up by saying that journalism is something I do on a blog, and there are many other things one can do on a blog, only a few of which I’ll allow.
The thing journalists still do today is extract and present the viewpoints of people who matter more to the business they cover than the journalists themselves. Here now in living color are a handful of the most revealing, poignant, and on occasion, truthful statements made to ReadWriteWeb journalists in the year about to pass.
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#10
After people finish college, they probably grow (in their professional capacity) about 10% a year – learning and earning double in 7 years. As a startup, you can’t afford to do it that way. You need to invest in them and get them to grow faster. Spending time with them is key.
Auren Hoffman, CEO, Rapleaf, a personal data aggregation service, to RWW’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, September 8, 2011.
#9
I see the platform business being in a once-in-a-decade transformation. That transformation is driven by the move to cloud, to build social apps, mobile apps, real-time applications. Developers are saying, ‘Look, the ten-year-old technologies from .NET or Java Enterprise Edition weren’t really designed for this new world.’
Byron Sebastian, CEO, Heroku, in an interview with RWW’s Scott M. Fulton, III, October 28, 2011.
#8
We’re faced with a real challenge of covering an entirely new coverage area. A lot of the tried and true methods don’t work anymore. I remember being a cub reporter and going in at 5 am to write up the police blotter. There are no media rooms in what we’re trying to cover. No one is faxing us things. There are so much less formal systems; everything’s out there but it’s an enormous mess. When someone walks down the street it doesn’t leave a path of 1s and 0s but when someone walks down the street on Twitter, it does.
Nick White, CEO, The Daily Dot, to RWW’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, August 23, 2011.
#7
I think one of the real challenges was not knowing what the challenges were going to be and kind of uncovering a lot of new problems here that no one has solved in the past. So, it requires a lot of new solutions that no one has never thought up. It is a lot of hard work.
Mat Marquis, principal designer, The Boston Globe, discussing the paper’s “responsive redesign” project with RWW’s Dan Rowinski, September 14, 2011.
#6
A lot of us our too willing to accept roles as consumers in society. I understand the economic reasons for that, but I don’t think it leads to a fulfilling life or a sustainable community. The best way out of this is to deconstruct what you’re consuming, or better yet to become a creator yourself. I’m trying to help people see their own creativity.
Douglas Roshkoff, author, Program or Be Programmed, to RWW’s Klint Finley, May 26, 2011.
#5
There are literally 100 million people who are building software in one way, shape, or form. One of the things that we want to do, particularly in this world of connected devices and continuous services, is to say, how can we make our platforms and our tools desirable and relevant to the broader development community? At the same time… we absolutely want to keep in mind that there is a set of people who we call ‘the existing Microsoft developer base,’ and we actually want to figure out how to move them forward into this new world. When you have a .NET or a .NET code base, how do you bring that forward into the new world? Do you want to run it as a Windows Desktop application, or into the Metro world? We want to make it easy for people to bring their skill set, their expertise, and their code forward into this new world.
S. Somasegar, Senior VP, Microsoft Developer Division, to RWW’s Scott M. Fulton, III, September 14, 2011.
#4
The concept of journalism is going away. It is not enough to be a writer. You need to be a writer and an expert.
Jason Calcanis, CEO, Weblogs, Inc., to RWW Managing Editor Abraham Hyatt, June 13, 2011.
#3
It’s astonishing to me that, when we see certain people with some of the quality that Steve Jobs undoubtedly had, we reject them out of hand because they stand against the tide. Their “hell-no-ness,” if you will, gets on our nerves. I dare say, especially if they’re women. And that’s a little sexist.
Carmi Levy, contributing analyst, CTV News Channel, to RWW’s Scott M. Fulton, III, November 24, 2011.
#2
BROWSER SHOULD BE WINDOW TO INTERNET. IT NOT JOB OF WINDOW TO BREAK THING YOU LOOKING AT DEPENDING ON WHAT WINDOW YOU USE.
@FAKEGRIMLOCK, GIANT ROBOT DINOSAUR MAKE COMMENT IN COMMENTS, AT JON MITCHELL, OTHER DAY IN 2011.
#1
It became too much of a tangle. At the end of the day the focus on what was important was lost, and what is important are the developers.
Carlos Icaza, CEO, Ansca Mobile and former Flash engineer for Adobe, to RWW’s Dan Rowinski, November 9, 2011.
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, December 27, 2011
Dec 27th
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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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, December 18, 2011
Dec 18th
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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2011 ReadWriteWeb Trivia Challenge, Final Day
Dec 16th
As a thank you to our loyal readers and community, ReadWriteWeb is partnering with ThinkGeek to give away a few fun and geeky prizes. Today is the final day of our holiday trivia challenge, so put on your thinking caps!
The way this extremely complex game works is that we’ll give you a few cool trivia tidbits to wow you with our vast knowledge of the cool but unimportant and then we’ll close with a trivia question that we do hope will stump you. You can dig deep into the recesses of your brain (or Google) and answer via the comments on the post. The best answer, according to the RWW staff, will win the prize of the day, kindly donated for your geeky pleasure from ThinkGeek.
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We here at ReadWriteWeb understand that everything Retro, especially when it pertains to childhood fun, is new again. You remember your Atari fondly, despite it’s crude attempts to make one game of ball and stick, into another, simply by changing the title. You conveniently forget the fact that despite the lack of a save system, right in the middle of the 8th castle on Super Mario Bros., your little brother would barrel into your room and the vibrations would pop the cartridge up in your Nintendo. Sure, you could possibly push it back down and it might keep you right where you left off, but in the end, you made sure little brother regretted his heavy feet, didn’t you?
Forgetting the torture of early gaming, we yearn for a return of the simple games, sans the aforementioned catastrophes. Luckily, the folks at ThinkGeek feel the same way. They wanted to play those old games, but on newer hardware.
The iCade is today’s trivia prize. Yes, you’re welcome fellow geeks.
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
History was my major in college, so when asked to come up with trivia, I always try to go with what I know. While I’d love to wow you with my advanced knowledge of tech, if it’s not a video game, I’m the last person on the ReadWriteWeb staff you should ask. That said, I think I can hold my own when it comes to Medieval European studies, and have a fairly extensive knowledge of useless trivia from 1500-1950 as well.
Good luck!
Comfortably Numb
There’s a great debate regarding the first use of anesthesia. Some claim its first use was by a dentist, either Horace Wells or William T.G. Morton. Others claim it was a surgeon who first administered an anesthetic, either Charles T. Jackson or Crawford Long. The 1800s was actually fraught with this debate. The story of Horace Wells, who threw acid on a prostitute while high, testing an anesthetic, and ended up taking his own life in prison, is particularly tragic. But in the end, most people agree that Sir James Young Simpson, a free thinker and incredibly bright man, seems to have made the first happy dose. Simpson, an Obstetrician, introduced anesthesia in childbirth in 1799.
Wash Your Hands!
Another medical pioneer, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, discovered that women who birthed at home were far less likely to die in childbirth than those who delivered in a hospital. Apparently, it’s quite dangerous to remove your hands from the dissection of a cadaver and then use them in the delivery of a baby without a good scrub. It seems obvious to us today that the germs on a dead body should not be applied liberally to a woman in childbirth. But, remember this was a few decades before Pastuer and Lister (and Snow and Redi) furthered the evidence of the germ theory. Unfortunately, while the incidence of death dropped from 18% to 2% after Semmelweis instituted handwashing, the time was not yet right to end the widespread deaths from Puerperal Fever (childbed fever). Rejected and mocked, Semmelweis died in an insane asylum at the ripe old age of 47.
Famous women who died of puerperal fever: Mary Wollstonecraft (one of the earliest feminists and the mother of Mary Shelley), two wives of Henry VII, Katherine Parr (the final wife) and Jane Seymour (the one who gave him a son), and his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. Considering all the difficulties with royal miscarriages in the Tudor era, one might wonder about the efficacy of their physicians.
Royal childbirth did eventually improve. By the time Queen Victoria was birthing, a few hundred years later, she was able to birth in relative safety and ease due to her physician’s excellent sanitary attention and anesthetic use (the Snow mentioned above).
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An Unlikely Romance
And here’s the question that I hope will give you pause before you’re able to answer it. There once was a lady, fair of face, tiny in stature and haughty in nature. It’s rumored she was in love with an English ambassador. Alas, her bastard cousin proposed. This lady, full of affront at having to consider his offer, declined due to the unfortunate circumstance of his birth.
Her Knight cousin, full of his own affront, marched over to her and pulled her off her horse by her braids. She then accepted his proposal. She bore him 11 children and many say they were quite happy.
Students of medieval history will know that her husband was one of the most powerful conquerors ever. Who was this famous lady?
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2011 ReadWriteWeb Trivia Challenge: Mobile Edition
Dec 15th
It has been a good year here at ReadWriteWeb. We have had some great stories, breaking news, thoughtful diatribes and a ton of brilliant news about innovation. Mobile leads the way. We want to thank our readers this week with a series of trivia contests with fun (and sometimes goofy) prizes. So, we partnered with ThinkGeek and conjured some trivia to put our readers’ brains through the wringer.
Care to challenge yourself? Answer today’s trivia question in the comments and the RWW staff will pick a winner tomorrow morning. Prizes kindly donated by ThinkGeek.
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Today’s Prize
In homage to all the mobile game developers out there, the ReadWriteMobile trivia prize is a mobile game. Or, games really. Say hello to the a320 Pocket Retro Game Emulator:
How awesome is this thing? All the old school Nintendo games you would ever want, in your pocket, anywhere you go. Super Nintendo and Sega too. What better prize for mobile developers than a handheld gaming system with all the geeky goodness of the games they played when they were kids?
Martin Cooper & The Brick
The inventor of the modern cellular phone was Martin Cooper. Cooper, who went on to found ArrayComm later in his career, was the general manager of Motorola’s Communications Systems Division when he created the 30-ounce monstrosity in 1973. Cooper was once almost run over crossing a street in New York talking on the phone to a radio reporter. He was later involved in creating the 16-ounce DynaTac, one of the first commercially viable cellular phones in 1983. It cost $3,500 and was a status symbol to the wealthy of the world through most of the 1980′s.
Imagine it, a one-pound phone! Good thing Moore’s Law kicked in. Now we have four-inch touch screens that weigh three ounces and allow us to watch videos of cats playing with dolphins wherever we go.
The iPad Is Alive … In 1994!
People have been dreaming of effective tablet computers for decades. Tablets have been featured as interfaces in science fiction long before the iPad ever came along. Steve Jobs may have brought us the first commercially successful tablet but the idea was by no means original.
Check out the video below. It is a concept for a news reading device that looks suspiciously tablet like. Who dreamt this creature up? It was the good folks at Knight-Ridder as the future of the newspaper. Imagine if it was a media organization that created the first commercially viable tablet and not Apple and its crack team in Cupertino. The world would be a much different place.
Developing the First iPhone
Before we had the touch screen wonder that became the original iPhone, the team at Apple had several prototypes that Steve Jobs threw out. One of them was an iPod-like contraption that featured a scrolling wheel as opposed to a capacitive touch screen. If that product had been released to the public, the Era Of Mobile as we know it may have never taken place.
In honor of the road not taken, we ask today’s trivia question: Whose names are on the Apple patent for text input via click wheel of the pre-iPhone?
Answer in the comments. We will pick a winner tomorrow morning with the most accurate answer. Bonus points if you get the patent number.
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2011 ReadWriteWeb Trivia Challenge: Enterprise Edition
Dec 14th
We’d like to extend a big thank you to our loyal readers and community at ReadWriteWeb. As part of that, we’ve partnered with ThinkGeek to give away a few geeky and fun prizes. Here’s how it works, we’ll give you a few trivia tidbits of interest on a topic, and then close with a trivia question that we hope will be a stumper.
So read on, dig deep into your brain (or Google), and give us your answer in the comments. The best answer, according to the ReadWriteWeb staff crack team of trivia experts, wins the prize of the day.
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The Prize: Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter
The prize today? A coveted Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter from our friends at ThinkGeek. You can be the hit of the office parties with your officially licensed Star Trek weapon of pizza destruction. Pepperoni with mushrooms never tasted quite so good as when it’s been sliced through with a replica of the original Enterprise. No pizza can stand up to Federation technology.
Seriously, we’re not sure that we’d actually use the Enterprise for cutting a slice, but you’d have to admit it looks good. Naturally, this prize demands that we throw a little Sci-Fi trivia your way.
The First Science Fiction Film
Trek may be the first big franchise in science fiction, but it’s far from the first Sci-Fi to grace the small or large screen. That honor goes to a film that’s now more than 100 years old: A Georges Melies film titled A Trip to the Moon. The film is a hair shorter than 2001, clocking in at only 14 minutes long.
The film was based (very loosely) on “From the Earth to the Moon,” by Jules Verne and “The First Men in the Moon,” by H.G. Wells.
Though the special effects leave something to be desired by today’s standards, it wasn’t exactly cheap. According to Lang Thompson, it cost 10,000 francs and required four months to make. “Melies used machinery and techniques from theater but also experimented with clay models and costumes of paper-based board.”
Surprisingly, Hollywood hasn’t remade A Trip to the Moon yet.
Go Go Godzilla!
Well, if Trek isn’t the oldest, maybe it’s the longest-running franchise? Nope. How about the venerable British classic, Doctor Who? Again, no. That honor goes to everybody’s favorite lizard, Godzilla.
The first Godzilla film was released in 1954, originally titled Gojira. What could have been a film about a giant octopus (if Eiji Tsuburaya had gotten his way), has become a long-lived franchise with more feature films than you can shake a stick at. Did you know, the name came from the Japanese words for gorilla (“gorira”) and whale (“kujira”)? Now there’s a concept I’d like to see someone run with.
A lot of fun has been poked at the Godzilla suit over the years, but you should have tons of respect for Haruo Nakajima, who donned the more than 200lbs suit. According to IMDB “it was not uncommon for a cup of Nakajima’s sweat to be drained from the Gojira suit.”
Or Maybe Superman
Science fiction is open to interpretation, though. If you lump in comic book superheroes, then Godzilla actually came in a bit late to the big screen. The first Superman cartoon short was released in 1941. Superman and his mild-mannered alter ego Clark Kent were voiced by radio actor Bod Collyer.
The live-action films also beat our sore tempered lizard friend to the theaters. The Superman serials appeared in 1948, with Kirk Alyn as Supes, and Noel Neill as Lois Lane.
If Neill’s name rings a bell, it’s because she had a part in the most recent film installment Superman Returns. Don’t look too hard for Lex Luthor in the early serials or the later Superman film with George Reeves. Luthor didn’t turn up until the 1978 Superman film starring Christopher Reeve.
Your Trek Trivia
Bringing it back to Star Trek, let’s see how many RWW readers can get this one. Yesterday we touched on women in computing. Did you know several of the original writers for the Star Trek television series were women? One of the writers was told by Gene Roddenberry to change her name, in order to be hired by the network. Who did Roddenberry tell to change their name, and what women wrote for the series during its original run?
Submit your answer in the comments to this post, and we’ll announce the winner tomorrow. Good luck!
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