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by tj on February 28, 2006
Another jewel from DEMO 2006 was certainly www.sharpcast.com. Sharpcast aims to simplify your digital media experience. Photos is where Sharpcast has started their quest: They promise to: * Access...
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by tj on February 27, 2006
One of the most interesting companies at DEMO 2006 was certainly www.kosmix.com. Kosmix may be best described as having a 'horizontal approach' to vertical search. Kosmix has a simple and...
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by tj on February 24, 2006
From editorsweblog.org: "Arguably the world's most long-standing and successful citizen journalism publication, South Korea's OhmyNews, has traded almost 13% of its shares for $11 million...
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by tj on February 23, 2006
Mike mails in his call for submissions for the upcoming Innovate Europe May 15-17th in Zaragoza, Spain. Innovate Europe is the DEMO 'subsidiary' in Europe - so expect great things! Mike...
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by tj on February 22, 2006
It seems many blogging properties and technology providers should wait for a call from SixApart's VP Business Development - they must do something with that money... From Silicon Beat: "Six...
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by tj on February 21, 2006
Finally this site has a new design and we hope you like it. Together with the new design we have introduced several changes: - We now produce valid XHTML, RSS 2.0 and have a valid CSS Earlier some of...
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by tj on February 14, 2006
As CNET reports MYSQL has bagged a major series C: "Open-source database company MySQL said it has secured $18.5 million in series C funding, a round led by Institutional Venture Partners. The...
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by tj on February 14, 2006
DEMO has released the full series of videos: "The DEMO '06 videos are now available for your viewing pleasure! Miss any of the demonstrations while you were there? Forget to go to the show...
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by tj on February 08, 2006
Azos AI has a range of product that helps you to keep your cell phone in an emergency mode. When on eMode cell phone prioritize incoming security alerts. Not sure how the integration will take place....
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by tj on February 08, 2006
my people is a VOIP provider that provides a lot of extra services like reminder calls, wakeup calls, call back for cell phones. I'm using voip.net. It does fewer tricks but has a great plan for...
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by tj on February 07, 2006
Gravee is coming up with a strong proposition - search engines take too much value out of content owners sites. So Gravee came up with a fairer ad split for their search engine. The search engine...
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by tj on February 07, 2006
So a late flight from SFO and one hour time difference to Phoenix made my arrival later than I would have hoped. Thanks to Jeff I still had the opportunity to catch up on to the list of presenters....
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by tj on February 05, 2006
Well not long ago I was musing about Fon as the new Skype and apparently someone at Skype wanted to have a piece of the action: "FON a wireless services company started by maverick entrepreneur...
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by tj on February 03, 2006
The RedHerring carries a story about the networking skill of Silicon Valley: "Similar stories abound in Silicon Valley, which still soaks up more than a third of all venture capital in the...
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by tj on February 02, 2006
Just found a recent summary of Richard Skentra in which he reports about the new competive arena for Topix: "I count at least 15 news startups trying to tag, aggregate or community-edit the...
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by tj on February 02, 2006
ContentSutra has the scoop on the round for one of India's largest online travel companies - TravelGuru: "Today's The Economic Times has some financial details of the deal. Travelguru is...
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by tj on February 02, 2006
Innocentive has been residing in my boomarks for some two years now - great news today: "InnoCentive today announced it has closed a $9 million Series A Preferred venture capital financing round...
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by tj on February 01, 2006
Good news - Creative Weblogging will cover DEMO 2006 LIVE. What is DEMO?DEMO is a twice yearly held event. DEMO describes itself as the premier launch pad for emerging companies. DEMO stands out...
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