Digital Capital Week

<Washington DC, June 11 – 20, 2010 – A momentous festival will be happening in the area called Digital Capital Week or DCWeek. The festival is a week of creative technology events. Digital Capital Week is based on successful conventions such as Internet Week NY, Social Media Week, Foto Week DC  and the likes.

The event is a melting pot of different daily events, keynote speakers, organizations and community groups.  DCWeek activities involves learning through sessions and workshops from technology ground breakers, support innovative businesses, meet new friends, network contacts and it even includes charity and benefit activities for the DC area.

Another great thing of the event is that it is admission free for the first 2000 attendees. The specific events will be hosted by different I.T. communities and may have entry fee.

DCWEEK is co-produced by iStrategyLabs and Shiny Heart Ventures.
iStrategyLabs is an idea foundry that brings new ideas to life in the digital and physical world for clients, communities and ourselves.
Shiny Heart Ventures is a technology company with heart and soul, focused on creating community powered products and services that remind us of the joys of life.

For more information, visit the official website. www.digitalcapitalweek.org

NewTech Meet Up at Westen in Tyson’s Corner

Falls Church, VA – A meet up will be happening in the Westen Hotel leaded by the members of the New Tech Group and people from IT4DC. The Meetup is an opportunity to expand their networks. The gathering is usually composed more than 50 I.T. and non-I.T. practitioners who are interested in meeting new people and expanding the reach of their networks.

If interested, the exact location is  in Westen Hotel, 7801 Leesburg Pike,Falls Church, VA 22043 and they can be reached for reservations in this number  (703) 893-1340. The date for the meet up is March 10, 2010.

Dub raises $2.8M in Funding for Their Mobile Application DubMeNow

Vienna, Va, February 22, 2010 – DubMeNow (Dub), a mobile software solution for exchanging business cards and instantaneously managing contact information bumped up a $2.8 Million in funding for their Mobile Business Card Sharing software. The funding was leaded by Syncom Ventures along with other undisclosed investors.

DubMeNow, the mobile app has been downloaded nearly 1 million times and is currently partnering with DataTel and Moodle to reach more users especially in the education sector. Datatel currently is the 3rd largest ERP for universities while Moodle is the leading CMS for educational institutions. With this tie up, DubMeNow will have the capability of reaching up to 1,000 universities. This will give DubMeNow a headway to its competitors such as Bump, the current leader of information sharing application in the mobile phones.

DubMeNow CEO Manoj Ramnani believes that the partnerships and real revenues will serve  Dub better in the long-term.

comScore Launches Platform To Help Publishers Optimize Digital Ads

RESTON, VA, February 22, 2010 – comScore,  the leader in measuring the digital world announced today their new predictive modeling platform in optimizing digital ad campaigns called Audience Advantage™.

comScore Audience Advantage uses proprietary audience scoring algorithms to determine optimal audiences for advertisers using predictive variables as inputs. These variables come from a variety of observable behaviors online as measured via comScore’s opt-in research panel, including site visitation, search activity, video views, advertising engagements, online purchases or any other number of behaviors that may relevant to an advertiser.

“The comScore Audience Advantage platform represents a revolution in the media planning and buying process by enabling publishers to use the lookalike models to reach the audience that mirrors the advertiser’s best prospects. This allows them to deliver a campaign that is on point in both message and audience,” said Erin Hunter, comScore executive vice president.

Full article can be found here.

2010 Southeast Venture Conference will feature Vint Cerf as the Keynote Speaker

TYSONS CORNER, VA – The well known “Father of the Internet”  and Vice President of Google, Vint Cerf will be the keynote speaker of the upcoming and much awaited 2010 Southeast Venture Conference. Vint Cerf is scheduled to deliver his speech on Feb. 24 – 25 at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

Vint Cerf rose to fame when he co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet with Robert Kahn. Cerf received numerous awards and is also well known for his predictions in the computing world especially in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Environmentalism and even the digital entertainment industry.

The conference will also feature global shakers in the I.T. industry such as Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales. There will also be  dozens of presentations encompassing different I.T. technologies from businesses to entertainment industry.

Event Brite to Host a Free Educational Event for Small Business

Event Brite, an online event management and registration company will be having a free educational event for small businesses and entrepreneurs focusing on online businesses.
The event will be featuring topics on social networking as a tool in growing businesses. The topics includes Social Media 101 for Small Businesses, Creating A Killer Social Experience for e-Commerce site and will also feature topics such as using Twitter and tips and tricks for online businesses.
For more details on the event, Visit http://sccdc.eventbrite.com

First meetup for the Virginia SEO and Internet Marketing for Small Business

Virginia will be having their first SEO and Internet Marketing gathering for small businesses on February 21, 2010, 2:00 P.M. at the Digital Caffeine Internet Cafe.

For interested participants, you can RSVP and confirm your attendance to Bill Slawski.

The exact address for the meetup is:

Digital Caffeine
105 E Davis St
Culpeper, VA 22071
http://www.dcculpeper.com

A map to Digital Caffeine:

http://maps.google.com

TelecomHUB presents Telecom 2010: A Decade of Growth

Telecom HUB will be having a 1 day event on February 18, 2010 at the Tower Club, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna, VA called Telecom 2010: A Decade of Growth. The symposium will feature the following I.T. experts as the speakers:

David Barnette, East Region VP, Clearwire
Jason Cory, Vice President & Global Portfolio Executive, CSC
Chris Hillabrant, Regional VP of Engineering & Operations and Interim GM, T-Mobile
J.D. Myers II, Vice President, Cox Business

The event will put emphasis on user sophistication, technology innovation, workforce mobilization, security concerns and demand for services, speed & capacity as the major topics. Specifically, the symposium will be highlighting the following topics:

*Cloud Computing
*Smartphones and Mobile Apps
*Enterprise Social Networking
*Green Technologies
*4G LTE/3G CDMA
*Quadruple Play

The Registration fee is $45 for Members and $65 for Non-Members. $55 and $75 after February 16th.

Visit www.telecomhub.org for more details of the event.

FOSE 2010 Promises to Deliver Powerful IT Solutions

FOSE 2010 expo and conference which will be held at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on March 23 – 25, 2010 will feature rich IT topics and will focus on powerful IT solutions and critical I.T. technology.

The FOSE 2010 Expo and Conference will be delivering topics from different I.T. industries such as Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data Center and Virtualization, Defense Innovations and more. The event will be inviting top industry experts from well known I.T. companies and government institutions.

The FOSE Expo is FREE for government, government contractors and military; and only $50 for others to attend.

Summary of 2009’s Digital Year by comScore

comScore, Inc., a leading I.T. company from Reston, Va., released today their review of the digital happenings of 2009. The report entitled “The comScore 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review” will recap the major trends of U.S. digital market such as e-commerce, search engines, online videos, advertisements and mobile industry.

According to the year-end review, the digital consumer behavior surges high despite economic and environmental constraints.  The recession proves to be a challenged in the to all businesses but it did not stop the digital media industry from climbing high in 2009. The rise of digital industry is due to the internet’s evolution and becoming an integral part of the american personal and professional lives.

The comScore 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review report can be downloaded here: www.comscore.com/digital09