The problem with Web 2.0 is not information. Managing and storing the data is the issue. Every time you upload a photo to Facebook or operate your business on the cloud, server farms are struggling to keep up.

WSJ reports:

“We’ve basically reached

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Information overload, startup companies to the rescue is a post from: TechStartups.com

The web has come a long way. While voice technology isn’t new, it has only recently taken off on mobile phones.
I wrote about this voice phenomenon for Forbes about Bubble Motion. The startup launched a voice version of Twitter called…

Use voice to search your cell phones is a post from: TechStartups.com

I’m rising early to be a guest on Danny Boome’s new show! I’ll be talking about all things DNA: ancestry, diet, and dating. Stay tuned!

Rise and shine with Danny Boome’s new live interactive web based morning show!  At 8:00am on Thursday, March

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New Morning Show: Danny Boome’s Morning Glory is a post from: TechStartups.com

Fear has set in. Jobless claims are up. The recession might be on a double dip. At best, we can expect a U-shaped recovery. We need bank activity and we need them to increase spending.

Physorg.com reported:

“Some bankers made mistakes by

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Are we in for a double dip? is a post from: TechStartups.com

I spent hours preparing a proposal, but the file size was too big. I hate when that happens! Thankfully, my friend invited me to Dropbox, so I could share a folder containing the proposal. I signed up and got 2 gb worth…

Dropbox has put me on cloud nine is a post from: TechStartups.com

I use the location-based service Foursquare, but most of my friends don’t — which kind of defeats the purpose. I don’t check in that often. Right now, I only know a handful of social media elite who are regulars.

But Foursquare is quite…

Foursquare and Twitter at South By Southwest is a post from: TechStartups.com

We love gadgets, there’s no doubt about that. But our hybrid cars to computers to cell phones don’t grow on trees — they are made of light and heavy rare earth metals that are shipped from abroad.

Fortunately, the U.S. Geological Survey…

America has precious tech resources is a post from: TechStartups.com

One English town is protesting Google Street View. Residents of London Street thought they won, until they saw their street show up on Google later that day.

The Telegraph reports:

Internet users who attempted to look at the street yesterday morning

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Protests over digital peeping Tom, a.k.a Google is a post from: TechStartups.com

Thank you Astro_Soichi for tweeting this amazing picture of city lights, stars, and aurora from the International Space Station. And thanks for a peak of North Korea. And the Bahamas. Key West. And Saudi Arabia. Mozambique,…

Amazing tweets from space is a post from: TechStartups.com

I recently wrote about the amazing race for the cheapest, fastest DNA sequencing machine. Not surprisingly, two companies I mentioned — Pacific Biosciences and Complete Genomics — made The Wall Street Journal list of 50 top promising, young companies. Pacific Biosciences…

Top 50 startup companies according to the WSJ is a post from: TechStartups.com

The future of gaming will be done on the Internet. You could argue this is a stupid move. The Internet has destroyed the music industry, the magazine industry, the porn industry, and countless others.

Why on earth would gaming, one of the most…

Gaming shares same fate as the TV and music industry is a post from: TechStartups.com

I’ve never been to South By Southwest Interactive conference, but everyone who has been says it is ammmaaaazing.

The SXSW conference starts on Friday. But the newbies should know, there are rules. Don’t confuse your internet fame with being a…

Launch business ideas at South By Southwest is a post from: TechStartups.com

At the Academy Awards, Ben Stiller came dressed as a native from Avatar and made the whole room crack up. The highest-grossing flick of all time only received 3 Oscars for visual effects, cinematography, and art direction.

MTV discussed why the…

Mixed feelings about Avatar is a post from: TechStartups.com

As always, clean tech companies could learn a little something from the Web 2.0 folks with the names, just so we don’t get confused.

The Wall Street Journal took to the streets to find which companies were hot. The WSJ ranked the…

List of the 10 top clean tech companies is a post from: TechStartups.com

In trying times, we love success stories. That might be one reason why in this great recession, entrepreneurs are seen as heroes. Thomas Friedman wrote in The New York Times about his Einstein-like friends.

The New York Times reports:

I

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Calling all clean tech visionaries. Look at Bloom Energy for inspiration. is a post from: TechStartups.com

Many of the entrepreneurs in New York have lived through the dot-com boom. But as of late, the tech scene has gotten a second life and the time is ripe for a new breed of Internet companies to thrive. The start-up energy sizzling…

Start-up scene in NYC is hot! is a post from: TechStartups.com

The secret to success is to “play dirty.” And apparently, New Yorkers don’t know how to play rough enough.

Dan Porter reports in the Business Insider:

There are secrets out there. There are secrets about how to win at SEO.

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Facebook secrets revealed is a post from: TechStartups.com

Everyone seems to be telling my generation to just settle. Lori Gottlieb suggested falling in love with someone who is just good enough.

Now, Don Peck suggests settling in our careers.

The Atlantic reports on our jobless times:…

The jobless need to learn how to say yes is a post from: TechStartups.com

When I hear anything Virgin Galactic related, I get really excited. I think about the editor of the first magazine I ever interned at. His boss bought him a ticket to ride Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship. The golden $200,000 ticket was enough to make…

Virgin Galactic will start testing flights in 2011 is a post from: TechStartups.com

When I was at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley last month, I felt like a dinosaur standing next to the chunky computers on display. Ironically, I had my laptop strapped around my shoulder with my iPhone tucked away in the…

So long desktop computers, you’re history is a post from: TechStartups.com

Google is getting smarter — it wants to personalize 20 percent of your searches. By using cookies as tags, Google can cater to your interests and your location.

The Register reports:

Speaking this afternoon at the search-obsessed

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Personalized web searches is a post from: TechStartups.com

Normally, genome wide sequencing machines look for individual mutations in the DNA code. But researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a blood test that can detect the fingerprint of tumors.

By looking for large rearrangements of the DNA…

DNA test for tumors is a post from: TechStartups.com

Wahed Said wants to build a waste-to-fuel plant in New York. He is not alone. Said is a green entrepreneur, who is a managing partner for Native American Investors Group. His two partners are Native American.

“Our mission is to…

One man has waste-to-fuel dreams is a post from: TechStartups.com

Orchard House Cafe is starting to become my makeshift office. Most of the time, speakers play oldies music and clandestine conversations are inaudible. The more I come here, the more I realize this place has the vibes of the TV show,…

Here’s evidence Google Store View has begun is a post from: TechStartups.com

Tech Crunch is bringing a game show approach to elevator pitches. At an event on May 24-26 in New York City, entrepreneurs will dish out their startup ideas in front of a thousand people — and the audience will vote American…

Pitch your startup idea: The winner takes home a grand prize of $50,000 is a post from: TechStartups.com