Angel InvestorRon Conwayhas stated that he likes investing in entrepreneurs when they’re 17 or 18 because he gets to watch their entire progression from start to finish. Ron Conway made his fortunes in the computing industry, and he has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail....

I have a soft spot for anything travel related on the Internet, particularly sites that encourage city dwellers to share their stories with fellow wanderlust readers. How Not To Be A Tourist(orHNTBAT.com) is a new travel resource written by locals for savvy travelers seeking expert advice. The site incorporates everything you’d expect like helpful tips on local customs and cheeky “Do’s & Don’ts” street-style photography on how to Look, Act and Live like a local....

Roomoramais New York City’s answer to the west coast bornAirBnB, one of a few innovative companies looking to harness the power of social, online communications to revive the travel industry. Roomorama was launchedby two avid travelers who wanted to inspire young urbanites to ditch the concrete and get out into the world to travel. Founders Jia En Teo and Federico Folcia are both travelers caught up with lifelong wanderlust. Roomorama is an online marketplace for short term rentals that vary from living room sofas to entire villas in the south of France....

Rootsis a starter theme for WordPress development that lets you focus on completing designs instead of spending unnecessary time getting the WordPress functionality working. Roots is based on the markup ofHTML5 Boilerplateand the WordPress PHP ofStarkers(another starter theme). It comes with the CSS frameworksBlueprint, which is more general, and960.gs, which is a grid-only framework. The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art....

An API (application programming interface) can assist developers in creating a richer experience for their users and, by offering developers access to an API, it can also increase the chances that the service itself will be successful. Below we’ve rounded up a few API’s you might find useful. Face Recognition Face.com, the creators of Phototagger and Photofinder Facebook applications, offers a free face recognition API for photos. This API will detect, recognize and tag faces in any photo....