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An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists


My first experience with VCs was as an engineer starting a microprocessor-design company; VCs were the gods of money. The other founders and I told the VCs what we thought we could do and how long it would more...
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Twitter's Open Platform Advantage


Twitter from the beginning has kept itself open, resulting in many applications based on its API. The old perception is that closed data is a competitive advantage. The new reality is that open data is more...
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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse


ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Twitter has captured our imagination and bloggers in particular and become a new hybrid of chat, social networking and blogging. Further Josh adds "Twitter still exists outside more...
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Ignite Seattle on 2/19 - Ignite Portland on 2/5


The next Ignite Seattle is February 19th at the CHAC. It's great to be back! At the last one we had over 350 people watch 15 great talks (all of which can be found online). Watch the videos (courtesy of more...
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Wherigo lets anyone build games


Wherigo lets anyone build games (or tour guides or local reviews or real estate apps) using the Lua programming language. The games can be tied to a specific location or they can be "play anywhere". The more...
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Six Apart Gets Into Microblogging with Activity Streams


Six Apart this morning launched a plugin for their MovableType blogging platform that aggregates and displays a user's activity from social web sites. Similar to FriendFeed, the Action Streams plugin displays more...
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ThisNext raises $5 million


ThisNext, a social shopping services company has raised $5 million in series B round as reported by Techcrunch. more...
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BlogTV and ICQ join hands


Techcrunch is reporting that the BlogTV has signed a strategic deal with ICQ. ICQ is owned by AOL. This will allow BlogTV to promote its product to ICQ users through ICQ website. more...
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