In the past two years, TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has become the single most important technology conference on the planet. And so it was this week, as entrepreneurs and startup founders and marketers came out in droves at the SF Design Concourse for three days of preening, schmoozing and, yes, showcasing of cutting-edge technologies, many of them social tools.
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TaskRabbit: Crowdsourcing comes to your neighborhood
Have you seen TaskRabbit’s iPhone app? Sign up for free and outsource small jobs and tasks to “TaskRabbits”. In a phrase, TaskRabbit is about service networking rather than social networking.
Welcome to the Social Revolution
Sean Parker at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday (photo by JD Lasica) Sean Parker, CEOs of Salesforce & eBay highlight day 1 of Web 2.0 Summit The one conference I try to make every year is the venerable Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. I’ve now been to seven out of the eight annual […]
What kind of Web 3.0 world should we make?
Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Silicon Valley insider, provides rich insight into technology trends, markets and building companies. Christopher Rollyson attended his presentation at SxSW and provided a substantial rundown. A main snippet? Web 3.0 would “arrive sooner and be stranger than we think.”
How Facebook has quietly created a gold mine for marketers
Inside the huge banner opportunity created by Facebook Facebook’s development schedule epitomizes the “white water, fast iteration” approach to serving company and customer. Although its mishaps are legendary, it succeeds in consistently fielding a mind-numbing array of features, so it is difficult to keep up and very easy to miss the significance of things. To […]