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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007The web is flooded with useful resources and SpotScout is one of them, dedicated towards offering innovative solutions to daily life problems with an aim to make life easier for everyone. One of the biggest problems we face today is the difficulty in finding parking space and SpotScout. That’s the pain that Spotscout is […]
LessonPortal.com - Fredericksburg, VA
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007LessonPortal.com is exactly what it sounds like, and CEO Chris Hoovler is not afraid to dream big about his site. The stated goal is “more teachers helping more students than any other site in the world.” The site has a blog, and the business model is the every popular “freemium,” but other than […]
MasterMoz - Social Networking Meets Web Directory
Monday, May 14th, 2007Mastermoz is a web directory like Yahoo or Dmoz, but with a twist. Mastermoz puts you in control of your own listing, so that it will be more accurate, and keeps track of your social networking information and reputation. The idea is that better accuracy and a good reputation lead to more credibility […]
Ratchet-X: Desktop mashup technology from New York
Saturday, May 12th, 2007Techcrunch covered Ratchet-X, a desktop based XML platform that allows anyone to share data across different desktop applications. It’s similar to Yahoo! Pipes for the web, basically allowing multiple applications to interact and mix up the same data via XML.
Ratchet-X is the first product released by RatchetSoft, a privately held company based out of Manhasset, […]
Harrisonburg, VA getting wired up!
Sunday, May 6th, 2007Business Week has a neat article on the upgrade to IPv6 in Harrisonburg, Virgina. IPv6 is the next “version” of the internet, and it will make way for more IP addresses as the internet expands at phenomenal rates. Over time, all areas will most likely upgrade to this protocol, but one small town in the […]
Planzo - Pittsburgh, PA
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Planzo is almost two years old, but as a company that is way outside the valley, they are worthy of a brief write-up here. Planzo bills itself as both “the world’s easiest online calendar” and an “online planning community”. After playing around with the demo calendar, I agree that it’s very easy to […]
ReLaunch of JobThread.com - NYC
Monday, April 30th, 2007Launching a startup is hard enough. Launching a startup in the ultracompetitive online job search industry is madness. Eric Yoon and Jason Wies rose to the challenge almost two years ago when they launched JobThread. The initial version was a learning experience, and now the pair has relaunched the site with new […]
Need Help With A Startup? Partnerup.com Wants To Connect You
Thursday, April 26th, 2007In the past four years, I’ve been early on three ideas. All three times I was ahead of the curve, with a solid idea that I floated to investors, potential partners, and anyone who would listen. All three times I failed, and watched someone else come along within a year and do the […]
Can Michigan Go High Tech?
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Anyone that has read a newspaper or watched television the past few years is surely aware that it has been a tough decade for North American car companies. In the face of dominating foreign competition, sky rocketing operating costs, and an overstressed health insurance infrastructure – corporations like Ford and GM have begun abandoning […]
Virtulingo: Online Language Training
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Andrew Armata’s first startup didn’t turn out the way he had hoped, but he heeded the advice of the Dali Lama - “when you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” Armed with the experience of one struggling startup, Andrew and his friend Josh Dominick recently launched Virtulingo. The idea behind the site is to […]
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