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Introducing Prologue - competition to Twitter

Happy with Twitter but not fully and therefore Joseph Scott and Matt Thomas decided to tackle this problem and within a few days they had a new theme for us: Prologue. Imagine it like a group Twitter. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

Startup Standout Jobs Tries to Engage

The new startup in employment and jobs market, Standout Jobs is borrowing heavily from social media portals like Ning, and backs it up with a modern Content Management System (CMS) and candidate tracking more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Services  |  

DotHomes brings full text-search to the US

Billing itself as the "google of property search", founders Artemi Krymski and Douglas de Jager, with investors Accelerator Group, Samos Investment and Arts Alliance, are now moving into US territory, more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Search  |  

Ribbit Readies An Amphibian Attack On Voice Apps

Co-founders Ted Griggs and Crick Waters are building a platform for Voice 2.0 applications and their startup Ribbit is readying itself for a product launch and public demonstration at the Demo on Tuesday. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: VoIP  |  

Digg - A social media Petri dish

The social media site startup Digg is actually a social media petri dish where a lot of experimentation is going on to determine the future of this new field. Scott Karp opines that a completely open more...
Discuss  |  Topic: New Media  |  

How Facebook Gave Birth to an Industry

May 24, 2007 is regarded as the day when the Social Networking Operating System or the Facebook Economy was kick started by Mark Zuckerberg when he announced that the 'startup' social networking site more...
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Greenplum closes on $27million round of financing

Meritech, Sun Microsystems and SAP Ventures closed a big round of funding for startup Greenplum. "We invested in Greenplum because we're seeing a growing demand for scalable database technologies to support more...
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Startup Chirp Launches Its Social Screen Saver

Social Screen Saver startup Chirp has launched its beta program. Get this. It is funded by Greylock Partners, Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC and angel investors Reid Hoffman (Chairman and founder of LinkedIn), more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

Startup Air Semiconductor targets GPS with cameras

Swindon, England based startup Air Semiconductor has started discussions with several digital camera makers about integrating its first chip into models to give the cameras continuous GPS based location more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Semiconductor  |  

Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program Expands

Bringing 30 new startups into its fold, Microsoft is aggresively expanding its Startup Accelerator Program so that it can shepherd enough to bring out at least some successful competition to the likes more...
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