Tag: BOSTON

Finding local amenities is a tough task when traveling, let along in your area. A Boston company aims at helping personalized local search through algorithmic recommendations. Zync has developed a prediction algorithm that enables users to pull in recommendations based on personal taste. Being that it's difficult to sift through recommendations for large cities, Zync takes into account personal ...

There's no beans about it, Google is rumored to be hunting out a location for a newly planned Boston area facility. They currently occupy a small office in the Cambridge area that houses mainly sales and engineering people but are looking to expand. Cambridge is on the top of the list for Google's planned 100,000 to 200,000 square feet of office space. Compare that to the recent opening of ...

The Voice Over Net conference starts today in Boston. Featured speakers for the event include the Vice Chairman of AOL, Ted Leonsis, CEO and publisher of Washington Post and Newsweek Interactive, Caroline Little, as well as the CEO of BitTorrent, Jason Krikorian. This is the tenth year for the Voice Over Net Conference. The conference will go over the full spectrum of IP communication offerings ...

If you live in the North East of the US, will be in the area, or just want to attend a podcasting Unconference, then Boston is the place to be the weekend after Labor Day. "PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style meetup..." is how the PodCamp Site describes the event. Anybody can attend, you do not have to be a podcaster, so listeners are welcome, as well as anybody who wants to register and attend. It ...