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Developers, check out our new channel ReadWriteHack, sponsored by the Intel Atom Developer Program. Tue Sep 7, 2010 ReadWriteWeb Year One Labs Launches Startup Accelerator in Montreal When ReadWriteWeb profiled Montreal last month as part of our "Never Mind the Valley" series, it was clear that the city had a thriving entrepreneurial community. And today the Montreal startup scene gets stronger with the announcement of the launch of Year One Labs, a startup accelerator program. The program is founded by four entrepreneurs -... Continue Reading » How to Get Android Notifications on Your Computer Desktop (Mac, Linux or Windows) Do you want to be notified of Android notifications like calls, text messages, low battery alerts and more when you're on your computer? An open source mobile application called "Android Notifier" does this by connecting your mobile phone's notification system to the notification system on your computer. The desktop application currently works on... Continue Reading » Investment in 3rd Party Twitter Startups Down 50%, Says Report Although the number of registered Twitter users has grown to over 145 million, a report released yesterday by investment research firm CB Insights notes that that popularity hasn't translated into investment in the Twitter ecosystem. According to its research, investment by venture capitalists and angel investors into pure play Twitter startups... Continue Reading » The Good Stuff Machine: My6Sense Comes to Android Using algorithms to give personalized recommendations is hard. A lot of online services try to leverage their users' social graphs to determine the stories, books, songs or movies that are potentially of interest to them. Given that your own interests can be quite different from those of your friends, though, these systems are often limited.... Continue Reading » How to Make Your Location-Based App a Success: Reward People for Their Activities Location-based mobile applications, also now being called "check-in services" to differentiate themselves from other geo-aware apps like Google Maps, are the hottest new social applications on the mobile scene today. The lineup includes game-based applications like Foursquare and MyTown, which each provide points, credits and/or badges for... Continue Reading » Google TV Developer Platform: What to Expect In May, Google announced a new Internet TV product called Google TV. As we noted at the time, the most interesting aspect of the announcement was the developer ecosystem that Google is introducing to television. Google TV will not just allow you to view television programs and online video content, it'll also give you access to Internet TV... Continue Reading » Giant Wooden Pointers at University Remind Students to Check In on Facebook [UPDATED: PHOTOS] It's always a little funny to me when I see "Find us on Facebook!" written on church marquees and signs on coffee shop counters. But the University of Kentucky has taken this real world hyperlink concept to the next level. The school has built huge wooden sculptures shaped like Facebook's teardrop pointer and map logo to remind students to check... Continue Reading » RWW SPONSORS ReadWriteStart Year One Labs Launches Startup Accelerator in Montreal When ReadWriteWeb profiled Montreal last month as part of our "Never Mind the Valley" series, it was clear that the city had a thriving entrepreneurial community. And today the Montreal startup scene gets stronger with the announcement of the launch of Year One Labs, a startup accelerator program. The program is founded by four entrepreneurs - Raymond Luk, Ben Yoskovitz, Ian Rae, and Alistair Croll - who describe themselves as "operators, not armchair quarterbacks. We've been in the trenches." The program will utilize the "lean startup"... Continue Reading » ReadWriteEnterprise Remote Work: Pitfalls and How to Avoid them One big theme to emerge out of our conversation last week about the future of the workplace was remote working. I thought it would be beneficial to start this week off by thinking about the disadvantages of remote work and the technologies and policies that may be able to mitigate some of those problems. Sponsor Productivity remains a concern for managers unwilling to give their employees a chance, but according to telecommute advocacy groups like Undress for Success and The American Telecommuting Association, research shows those concerns... Continue Reading »     ReadWriteCloud MySQL Diehard vs. NoSQL Fanboi: The Animated Movie The debate is often charged between MySQL proponents and those who are increasingly excited about NoSQL. So, it's good to see a bit of levity enter the discussion. Every once in a while we need to sit back and not take ourselves too seriously. That seems to be the intention of this video that we found on High Scalability. Sponsor Just be forewarned - this is NSFW. The video may be a bit harsh for some. The language is a tad off color. If that is an issue, we'd suggest you pass on this one. Still, the creator did a decent job of framing the... Continue Reading »

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