Silicon valley cannot be replicated
In the past month I’ve traveled to Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Hawaii and I keep hearing the same debate over and over again: ‘How can we become the next Silicon…
Hermione Way
Founder Newspepper.com & Techfluff.TV, loves Social Media, video on the Internet, Loves Travel & Pickled Onions
Stories by Hermione Way
Is MaiTai the beginnings of a new TED?
TED started in 1984 to bring together people from three worlds: technology, entertainment and design when founder Richard Saul Wurman noticed a convergence between the two industries. It started organically and grew into the…
Inside NASA's Space Apps Challenge [video]
Over 2,000 people from 24 cities world-wide took part in NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge, producing over 200 solutions using NASA data sets, over two days at the end of…
Startup World: South America Applications Now Open
Are you building the world’s best startup? The Next Web’s global startup competition Startup World is coming to a city near you. If you’re an entrepreneur living in Mexico City,…
SXSW 2012: Cyborg Anthropologist Amber Case
This post is part of a series sponsored by Internet Explorer 9. Learn more here. Amber Case has been described as being “from the future. She’s come back to help…
StartupBus Grand Finale - Watch Live
The SXSW gods must be with us because the sun has come out and turned SXSW into the tech feast we know and love here in Austin, Texas. Today is…
Live from the StartupBus Semi-Finals
It’s still raining here in Austin, Texas but that hasn’t disheartened over 300 entrepreneurs pitching on stage at the StartupBus semi-finals held at Caravan, Austin. The startups built at 60MPH…
The Best Parties of SXSW - Watch Live!
Ok, so it’s raining, freezing and thundering in Austin Texas, but get over it people. We’re at one of the tech industry’s biggest get-togethers: SXSW 2012. And tonight we are…
Watch Live: StartupBus Pitches at Rackspace HQ
We are live at the Rackspace HQ in San Antonio in Texas where the Rackers are giving the StartupBus entrepreneurs a warm welcome as they arrive to the Rackspace HQ…
Watch Live: StartupBus arrival show in Texas
10 buses filled with entrepreneurs have been making their way to San Antonio, Texas over the past three days on the tech accelerator, traveling 60mph on a bus; StartupBus. They…
Watch Live: The StartupBus Heads to Austin
Right now, startups are being formed on busses traveling 60 mph through America as they make their way to Austin Texas on StartupBus 2012. Who are the entrepreneurs behind the…
SXSW: Tune into All the Best Action LIVE Here
Poor you, you don’t get to attend one of the tech industry’s biggest festivals– SXSW– in Austin, Texas this week. But don’t despair, as a lucky reader of The Next…
GreatApps.com Aims to Change How Apps are Marketed
With annual mobile app downloads set to increase from 38 billion in 2011 to nearly 183 billion in 2015 advertising your app is just as, if not more important, than…
E3 helps Barcelona learn from Silicon Valley [video]
Silicon Siesta, Silicon Sangria, Silicon Tapas, Silicon Dali, Silicon Bottelon, Silicon bullfighting, Silicon Fiesta, Silicon Rambla and Silicon del Messi are just a few of the name suggestions for Barcelona’s answer to Silicon Valley. And some…
What Are the Biggest Problems in the Music Industry?
The music industry has been dragged through drastic innovation since it was disrupted by the advent of the Internet through services like Napster, Spotify and Pandora. But what now? We…
