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At ReadWriteWeb our mission is to explore the latest web technology products and trends. We’re fortunate to have a fantastic group of sponsors who support this goal. So once a week we write a post about them; here’s who they are, what they do and what they’ve been up to lately. We hope you’ll pay them a visit as a way to show your appreciation for their sponsorship of this site.

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Socialtext: Enterprise 2.0 Adobe: Flash media server Dow Jones: Semantic Web webinar Mashery: API management services TaxACT: online tax filing Rackspace: cloud computing experts DEMO09: launchpad for innovative products Crowd Science: demographic data Wild Apricot: membership management Eurekster: custom topic portals Our Hosts and Blogging Software: Media Temple and SixApart

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Semantic Web Weminar by Dow Jones

Dow Jones is hosting a webinar about the Semantic Web, on Thursday, February 12, 2009. Dow Jones notes that "these days it’s critical for organizations to consume, digest, and share news and information. The Semantic Web is no longer ahead of its time and is rapidly changing how organizations keep up with information overload." This webinar is Part I of a series and in it you will learn how Semantic Web Technologies enable you to re-use vital information to save expenditure, facilitate simpler collaboration and sharing of critical information across your business, and increase search relevancy and surface the most vital information needed to remain competitive

You can register for the Semantic Web webinar by clicking here.

Socialtext

Socialtext provides an enterprise wiki platform for organizations who want to accelerate knowledge sharing, foster collaboration, or build online communities.

Socialtext is currently offering a free white paper entitled 5 Best Practices for Enterprise Collaboration. It clarifies how collaboration solutions (a.k.a. Enterprise 2.0) can "dramatically reduce enterprise cycle era and expenditure. These results may be critical to survival in hard economic era, and the right collaboration solution is the simplest, most cost effective way to realize them."

Download Socialtext’s free whitepaper at http://socialtext.com.

Crowd Science

Crowd Science gives online publishers reports on the demographics and attitudes of their audience. We at ReadWriteWeb have signed up to this new benefit, because demographic data is something we’ve struggled to get in the past. It’s vital for any online business to know their audience, so Crowd Science is a welcome addendum to the stats armory that most of us in the Internet biz use.

You can sign up to get demographic data by clicking here.

Mashery

Mashery is a platform for web services, allowing companies to manage their APIs using Mashery’s expertise. In the Business of APIs conference, Mashery CEO Oren Michels clarified to the audience that while APIs are a technology, their use is a business choice. He went on to say that Mashery has helped customers such as WhitePages.com, Thumbplay, Compete.com, and Calais. Check out the white paper Five steps to scaling your business enhancement using web services to learn how you can use APIs for your business.

You can find out more about APIs and their business use at www.mashery.com.

TaxACT

TaxACT is an efficient way to file your taxes online, in either desktop or web-based versions. It offers two ways to enter data: the interview format, or the forms-based entry method. TaxACT also provides its users a highly reliable and robust alerts system to prevent costly mistakes generally caused by omissions or missed opportunities to maximize deductions. Regardless of the TaxACT version, all forms are IRS and State approved. The software was developed by professional accountants and CPAs.

You can see a tour of TaxACT online by clicking here.

Rackspace

Rackspace is one of the world’s largest hosting providers, but it’s also competing in the cloud computing arena. In October Rackspace announced two major acquisitions: SliceHost and JungleDisk. Slicehost is a standard cloud computing and hosting provider with about 15,000 users, while JungleDisk is one of our favorite online backup services. JungleDisk used to rely on Amazon’s S3 storage solution, but it now also supports Rackspace’s cloud storage solution. At the same time, Rackspace also announced a new suite of services, Rackspace Cloud Hosting, which combines a hosting platform (CloudSites) with a cloud storage solution (CloudFS), and, in the long run, a tight integration with Slicehost’s services.

Click here to explore Rackspace’s hosting and cloud computing solutions.

Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5

Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 offers powerful streaming with a flexible environment for making and delivering rich, interactive, multiway social media experiences to a broad audience. You’ll find a superior video experience, with new features such as Dynamic Streaming, DVR functionality, HTTP delivery support, and H.264 enhancements.

Check out the Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 to add interactivity and media streaming to your social media applications.

DEMO09

DEMO09 is on March 1-3, 2009, at
Desert Springs. With more than 20,000 technologies reviewed and 1,500 companies selected to launch on the DEMO stage over the past 19 years, DEMO remains one of the best places to launch your new product. The show is made up of 70 six-minute presentations in two days and you’ll see a lot of innovative products unveiled for the first time. In the past four years, DEMO companies have raised well over $2.5 billion dollars in the months/years following their debut at DEMO.

You can register for DEMO09 here.

Wild Apricot

WildApricot enables clubs, associations and communities to automate and streamline administrative tasks, using their online membership management software.

The company has an committed and well written blog, focusing on issues and trends in web technologies that help your organization realize more with less. Example posts include Show, Don’t Tell: Google Planet Outreach for Nonprofits and How to Learn More About Your Website Audience.

Wild Apricot gets lots of like in the social media; book sales pro Ann Kingman, for example, says she has “been very pleased with Wild Apricot in the past few months we’ve been using it. Fantastic customer support.”

See for yourself what Wild Apricot can do at http://wildapricot.com.

Eurekster

Eurekster is developer of the swicki that we use on RWW, a custom social search portal on the topic of your choice (in our case web tech), powered by the community.

People build swickis on all kinds of topics, some people build a lot of them. Alex Holmes, for example, builds really nice looking swickis on topics like the 2008 Election, Ocean Animals and Home Buying.

Our Gracious Hosts and Blogging Software

ReadWriteWeb is hosted by Media Temple and is published using SixApart’s MovableType.

If you’ve ever wondered what RWW looks like behind the scenes, or if you’ve never seen the MovableType publishing interface – that’s it on the left. We recently upgraded to MT 4.23, which is the latest version. We got onto this relief as soon as it was available – in fact our contacts at Six Apart emailed the actual code to us before it was up on their website. That’s customer benefit for you!

The companies above pay our rents or mortgages and we appreciate it. We hope you’ll stop by their sites and see what they’ve got to offer.

Have you got a smart company that could use some more visits by the sophisticated readers of a blog like ReadWriteWeb? Drop us a line and let’s talk.

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