austin 2.0

Austin 2.0 joins people primarily in Austin, TX interested or involved in Web 2.0 technology, companies, or who simply enjoy the Web 2.0 lifestyle. The network fosters discussion around Web 2.0 trends, start ups, and news in the Web 2.0 community.

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events worth a personal day

Dealmaker Forum
Date:April 30, 2008
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Sun Startup Camp
Date: May 4-5, 2008
Location: San Francisco, CA
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Where 2.0
Date: May 12-14, 2008
Location: Burlingame, CA
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TECH cocktail CONFERENCE
Date: May 29, 2008
Location: Chicago, IL
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Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Date: June 9-12, 2008
Location: Boston, MA
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Graphing Social Patterns East
Date: June 9-11, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
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2008 SOA World Conference & Expo
Date: June 23-24, 2008
Location: New York, NY
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Twiistup
Date: July 17, 2008
Location: Santa Monica, CA
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Some Assembly Required

Surround Yourself With Amazing People - Leadership Austin

Nametags At Business Events

Do Not Assume Your Friends Know How To Help You

Tapping The World's Best Marketing Minds

Rock 'n' Restock Concert with Bob Schneider and his Bluegrass Masscre - May 22, 2008

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Austin Start Up Blog

Value of Human Capital in Austin

Debix Raises $9.3M

The Austin Emerging 100

Q&A Wednesday: Mumboe

Book Signing with Stewart Friedman [Wharton]

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Texas Start Up Blog

Dallas-based Viewzi Gets Attention!

Startup Secrets?

Oil doesn’t equal happiness. . .

Movie Reviews: Ironman and Speed Racer

What do Payments, Referrals & Concierge have in common?

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Small Business Trends

Grants for Moms Who are Inventors

Sliding Down the Internet Tax Slippery Slope

We Have a Winner for Our Logo Design

Is it Inflation or a Bubble?

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Tech Crunch

Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience

No More iPhones at Apple Store - 3G Imminent?

The Blood Brain Barrier

The Evolution of the Press Release

Women Entrepreneurs Pitch Their Companies at Stanford

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Always On

Sleeping Your Way To Fitness

Tesla vs Fisker - The battle for the electric car...

Jurvetson: We Can Create Life

Multimedia... Will Blogs rule?

Socialutions: What About Results?

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VentureBeat

Funambol and Laslo Systems team up on mobile and web messaging

Aniboom cuts a deal with I-Play to do game-based animations

Q&A about the $150M Blackberry Partners Fund

Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo to leave the company

Reports of the 3G iPhone’s imminent release may be slightly exaggerated

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Social Media Today

Why Social Media PR Gets a Bad Rap

Sound advice for pitching bloggers

DeathWatchopedia: “Strategic Alternatives”

Socialutions: What About Results?

Next big thing = the internet for things

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Mashable

Aniboom Gets More Hollywood: Making Comics from Games

Do Desktop Images Need a Social Network?

Facebook Growing Up? CTO Adam D’Angelo is Leaving

Is the Promotion Of Regional MySpace Developers Good For Competition?

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Blog Posts

The Top 26 Social Networks for Business

Emerson Direct Marketing Observations

Posted by renster on April 29th, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Essential Online Tools For Networking Online

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Tech Grapevine: 2nd Annual Tech Tailgate - Tuesday, April 29th @ 6pm - Zilker Clubhouse

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Texas Startup Blog - VC Blog List

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Posted by renster on March 10th, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Less Networks

Less Networks provides innovative sales and marketing WiFi solutions for public-facing businesses and organizations.

Posted by renster on March 5th, 2008 at 9:53pm — No Comments (Add)

Videos

Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary Added by renster
Thoof - Not set in stone Added by Josh Morgan
Adam Weinroth from Pluck Added by renster

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Forum

RoR Anyone?

We are looking for someone who would like to join our team. Our app - a social aggregator, that's actually worth using unlike FriendFeed, SocialThing, .. etc. Interested? We are looking someone wit... Continue

Tagged: social, javascript, networking, aggregation, ruby

Started by Casey Grooms Apr 6

Who Will Be Bought Next????

What Austin based companies will be next?

Tagged: billion, funding, ventures, google, texas

Started by renster Mar 12

Meet local developers at SXSW
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I'm coming to SXSW here in a few weeks and would really love to meet some local Austin developers at the event. If anyone would like to grab coffee or a beer, drop me an e-mail. justin AT clearspr... Continue

Started by Justin Thorp. Last reply by Justin Thorp Feb 13.

Web 2.0 Journal

Virtualization Journal Attracts JavaOne Attendees to SYS-CON Media Booth

Virtualization Journal now reaches more than 60,000 online readers with monthly digital editions and weekly newsletters. The premier issue of the magazine's print edition, which debuts on May 6, 2008, at JavaOne in San Francisco, as a media sponsor of this event, will be available on newsstands worldwide. Article submission inquiries can be directed by email to editorial(at)sys-con.com and the world's most targeted advertising opportunities can be explored by contacting advertising(at)sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802-3021.

JavaOne Archives - Dvorak Comments on AMD Intel Lawsuit on SYS-CON.TV

Conference in San Francisco. Dvorak held forth on a number of topics, including the new AMD/Intel lawsuit, the viability of Java and Sun, the value of (or lack thereof) of corporate PR, and whether or not a new book about Silicon Valley is really worth reading.

Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Gains Momentum

As I've been stating for the past five years: if you want to provide real value to your enterprise, SOA should extend out of the firewall and into the Internet. However, this was not universally accepted by the rank-and-file SOA guys. Generally speaking, most viewed SOA as something that occurred exclusively within the firewall, and extending the reach of their SOA to Internet-based resources was taboo.

The Tale of Two Webs

When talking about the 'web' what are we referring to? For most people it's what can be experienced through their web browser including HTML, audio and video streaming, Flash-based animation, or rich Internet Application (RIA) interfaces. The key to this perspective is the web browser, which is viewed as essential for experiencing any type of content available via a hyperlink on the web.

Artech Launches GeneXus X to Expand Business Opportunities

Artech launched GeneXus X, the tenth GeneXus version, designed to expand the business opportunities of companies. GeneXus X incorporates new tools aimed at increasing the productivity of the work team and facilitate the rapid generation of corporate Web 2.0 applications.

The Way of the Widget in the Age of the Social Web

As the Internet's newest way to connect brands with consumers, widgets have officially arrived. These portable applets appear on blogs, websites, and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. Offered by third-party developers as embedded Flash (.swf) objects, the self-contained badges allow page owners to personalize their sites with photo slide shows, music playlists, games, and other content.

P2P Explained: What Exactly is a Peer Network?

Peer networks are really just logical graphs of computers, or, in many cases, logical graphs of connected applications. The physical topology of the peer network, means of communication, and weighting of the edges are all implementation-specific details that differ from P2P network to P2P network, but all of them can be reduced down at some point to a drawing containing nodes and edges.

Are Social Networks Just Another MMO Grind?

You remember back in the early days of video games when there wasn't enough capacity on the carts themselves to support 30 hours of gameplay? What was the solution to keep you playing? They made the games unbelievably freaking difficult. Try playing Kid Icarus now after having played a modern game and you'll see that the game introduces artificial barriers and creates needless blocks simply to increase the amount of time spent in the game. If you're an MMO maker and you charge a monthly fee, the more time people spend in your game the more money you make.

Force10 Networks Supports IBM's iDataPlex Solution For Web 2.0

Force10 Networks announced its enterprise switching technology will support IBM's iDataPlex. iDataPlex more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single rack while using 40 percent less power and will be aided by the high density and robust functionality of Force10's Ethernet switches.

GoGrid Launches Facebook Servers for Developers

GoGrid announced the availability of GoGrid's QuickStart Facebook servers, which allow businesses to build and deploy Facebook applications. The QuickStart Facebook Server automates and speeds up the Facebook application setup process, enabling Facebook developers to create, integrate, host and scale Facebook applications. By using a GoGrid QuickStart Facebook Server, both ASP.NET and Linux developers and systems administrators are now able to roll out Facebook-enabled servers in under 5 minutes, and when user adoption of their Facebook application increases, individual GoGrid QuickStart Facebook Servers can be scaled into load balanced server networks.