Web 2.0 Summit: MadeIt, Nokia’s new phone, and Zennstrom’s disappearance

Web 2.0 Summit: MadeIt, Nokia’s new phone, and Zennstrom’s disappearance

Web 2.0 Summit, co-hosted by O’Reilly Media and CMP, kicks off this Wednesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. A who’s who list of Web 2.0 digerati will converge for three days of deal making, partying and more deal making.

If you didn’t have the budget to… Continue Reading

Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School

Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School

Here’s a summary of the more compelling tips given by several tech industry luminaries — including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Greg McAdoo — at the Y Combinator Startup School event at Stanford this weekend.

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Facebook opens to the masses

Facebook opens to the masses

Facebook, the social networking site that until now has been reserved mostly for college and high-school students, is preparing to throw open its gates to the great unwashed, the hoi polloi.

We’ve been briefed on the move. Facebook is saying in its briefing — sent earlier… Continue Reading