Austin-based OneSpot is officially coming out of stealth mode today. OneSpot is a tool that allows publishers to automatically discover and publish fresh, relevant content to their online properties. Give OneSpot a list of high quality exemplar blogs, and OneSpot will search through thousands of blogs and score them based upon a patent-pending link scoring [...]
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The news started to trickle on Friday, with paidcontent.org reporting that Austin Ventures had won the bidding for Entrepreneur Media. The New York Times blog picked up on the story today, but just repeated the facts of the paidcontent.org story. The reported price tag is around $200M and there is another Boston-based private equity firm [...]
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If you’re in the business world, you know the name Geoffrey Moore. He’s the author of such best selling books as Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado. Each year, Texchange, the group for tech people in-the-know, holds one annual event that is open to the public. This year’s event is on June 18th at [...]
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Here are some interesting links for Friday:
Pluck releases SiteLife 3.3
Hilarious music video from the Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Summit
Steve Jobs keynote address from the WWDC where he announced iPhone 3G
The big news yesterday was the deal between Yahoo and Google that seems to be changing the balance of power in the internet world, but may put [...]
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There is a great conference coming to Austin on June 27th that aims to help non-profits understand social media. It’s named Got Social Media (for non-profits). The website actually leads off with a really great businesscard cartoon from Hugh MacLeod. From their website:
It’s predicted that by 2012 Social Media/Community Marketing Budgets will outweigh Traditional Marketing [...]
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Fireteam Reloaded, a team-based, multiplayer action game for the PC, is now available as a free download at www.pixelminegames.com. Developed by Pixel Mine, Fireteam Reloaded combines fast-paced sports action with intense battlefield combat while using integrated voice communication. Fireteam Reloaded is the third game to utilize the Pixel Mine Store for its micro-payment technology.
“The original [...]
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Just a reminder that happy hour is tomorrow (Thursday) at the Hi-Lo at 6th and Lavaca. It will start a little bit early at 5:30pm, since there have been several early birds lately. Perfect for stopping by before you head home. If you’ve never been to Austin Tech Happy Hour before, take the plunge and [...]
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This week’s Q&A Wednesday is with Mirage Networks, an Austin-based company focused on network security, which was recently named Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year. Austin Startup sat down with Greg Stock, President and CEO of Mirage Networks, to find out more about the network access control market, the history of the [...]
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Roy and Bertrand Sosa, two incredible entrepreneurs that started NetSpend, announced a $100M fund for emerging companies under the name MPower Ventures. Their first investment, something called MPower Labs which is the research and development arm. From the website’s front page:
MPower Labs is a global research and development incubator and business accelerator serving MPOWER Ventures [...]
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SolarWinds announced today that its online community for network engineers, Thwack, celebrated its first anniversary. To commemorate the event, SolarWinds released a new free tool for monitoring Microsoft Exchange servers.
The Thwack community site was founded by network management software leader SolarWinds to provide its more than 16,000 members with a venue for sharing ideas, technical tips [...]
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