Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible

Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that’s ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say thanks to the companies that make ReadWriteWeb happen by tweeting them (see the link below each sponsor) or following them using our Twitter list.

Interested in being a ReadWriteWeb sponsor? Our readers are smart, tech-savvy decision makers; 40% have a graduate degree or PhD, and over 45% play a key role in information technology purchasing decisions. More than 1 million people on Twitter follow us to stay abreast of the latest Web technology trends from around the globe. To find out more about our sponsor packages, visit our advertising page or email our COO.

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Rovi: Software and solutions that help people find movies, TV shows, music, photos, and other entertainment content. |
NoSQL Now!: A new conference covering the dynamic field of NoSQL technologies
Alcatel-Lucent: Application developer platform |
Medill School of Journalism: Digital journalism programs |
BUILDThe new MSFT event for modern hardware and software developers |
InboundWriter: Create content for increased reach, engagement and online conversions |
Site24x7: Online website monitoring service |
BTBuckets: Free personalization and on-site behavioral targeting tool |
Mashery: API management services |
Clickatell: SMS provider |
Toopia: Our iPhone app developer

Rovi

To successfully serve today’s media audiences, you have to know what makes them tick — or, in this case, click. Rovi’s latest research advisory will help. It describes eight distinctively different user types, defined by the way they acquire and interact with content. Get your complimentary copy here.

Thank Rovi on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

NoSQL Now!

NoSQL (for Not-Only SQL) is a new and fast-growing category of data management technologies designed to handle the requirements of high-performance, web-scalable systems and big data analysis. Organizations like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Yahoo are notable examples of innovators which have used NoSQL solutions, but smaller organizations are increasingly adopting NoSQL to gain greater scale and performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional relational database systems.

NoSQL Now! is a new conference covering this dynamic field, scheduled for the San Jose Convention Center, in San Jose, California, on August 23-25, 2011. It is a vendor-neutral forum describing the diversity of NoSQL technologies and helping businesses develop objective evaluation processes to match the right NoSQL solutions with the right business challenge. Keynote speakers include Dwight Merriman, architect of MongoDB, and Mike Stonebraker, database pioneer and serial entrepreneur.

Thank NoSQL Now! on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry, is turning the network into a powerful platform for developers.

With the launch of the Alcatel-Lucent Developer Platform, the company provides service providers and enterprises with tools that enable third-party developers to build, test, manage and distribute applications across networks, including television, broadband Internet and mobile. Alcatel-Lucent’s introduction of a radical new business model combines network APIs with other third-party APIs, and opens revenue sharing opportunities to support developers in their pre-revenue wallets and provides an additional revenue channel for service providers.

The developer platform is part of a larger push by the company to combine the trusted capabilities of service providers with the speed and innovation of the Web.

Thank Alcatel-Lucent on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

Medill School of Journalism

The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University offers programs that combine the enduring skills and values of journalism with new techniques and knowledge that are essential to thrive in a digital world. You might have a passion for creating finely crafted prose, or for telling stories using visual tools. Maybe you are invigorated by the possibilities of interactive publishing, or by videography for the small screen. Maybe you are an experienced professional looking to renew and retool your multimedia skills. You can find your niche in Medill’s graduate journalism program.

Thank the Medill School of Journalism on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

BUILD

Use what you know. Do what you’ve always imagined. BUILD is the event that shows you how to take advantage of the future of Windows. See how web-connected and web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript have full access to the power of the PC. Explore how the full power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10 transforms your experiences with the web.

Thank BUILD on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

InboundWriter

InboundWriter enables you to optimize the content of your website or blog to drive better business results. It makes it easy to understand what your audience is reading, sharing and discussing. It’s like a personal writing coach. You’ll get guidance on how to write killer content to boost traffic from search engines and social media sites. Optimize up to 8 documents each month for free. Sign up now.

Thank InboundWriter on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

Site24x7

Site24x7, an online website monitoring service which allows users to monitor their website, multi-step web application and online web transactions. Users can get instant alerts when their website goes down. Site24x7 allows monitoring from across 25+ global locations.

Site24x7 pricing starts from $1/Month/URL. Sign-up for a 15-day Free Trial!

Thank Site24x7 on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

BTBuckets

BTBuckets is a free personalization and on-site behavioral targeting tool that allows websites to increase engagement and ultimately maximize conversion rate optimization (CRO) by clustering and targeting specific user groups. With a simple installation process (a
single tag implemented on your site’s webpages just like Google Analytics), BTBuckets can update and adapt your website in real-time to create the best experience for that specific user segment without the need to change any HTML code on your website.

BTBuckets segmentation capabilities include behavioral, demographic, customer life-cycle, technographic and firmograhic. Install the BTBuckets browser extension to create segments from within the Google Analytics interface and target these users immediately.

Thank BTBuckets on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

Mashery

Mashery is a platform for Web services, allowing companies to manage their APIs using Mashery’s expertise. At the “Business of APIs” conference, Mashery CEO Oren Michels explained to the audience that while APIs are a technology, their use is a business decision. 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 development using Web services” to discover how you can use APIs for your business.

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

Thank Mashery on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

Clickatell

Clickatell has over 22,000 customers utilizing our service from small mom & pop outfits to large Fortune 500 companies including Avaya, Oracle, Shell, Barclays, BP, CNN, BBC and more. Here’s why you should trust us to mobilize your business: Our SMS gateway offers you wider coverage than any other SMS provider delivering messages to 600 network operators in 200 countries. Our gateway is not limited to SMS text messaging. You can also send a number of other message types including Ringtones, VCards, Binary, EMS, Unicode, Flash SMS, WAP Push, and more.

Clickatell offers you direct connectivity to its core SMS gateway platform via a number of APIs
(application programming interfaces) including; HTTP (internet post), SMPP, FTP, XML, SMTP
(email to SMS), SOAP and COM Object. Each API has full documentation with sample code where applicable. Learn more about Clickatell here.

Thank Clickatell on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

Toopia

Nicolas Koenig is the developer who made our beautiful iPhone app a reality. He runs an iPhone development shop from the Netherlands called Toopia. Toopia also created the Thermometer iPhone app, which enables your iPhone or iPod touch to get the current temperature based on your location. The RWW app lets you read us on the go, follow us on Twitter, share stories on Facebook and Twitter, and browse at your leasure using Read it Later and Instapaper. Download the ReadWriteWeb iPhone application here.

Thank Toopia on Twitter for making ReadWriteWeb possible.

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’s? Drop us a line and let’s talk.

Thanks to all our sponsors and our readers for your support!

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