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Meetup – The Original Web Meets World Company
Brad Burnham – Jul 23, 2008
Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O’Reilly defined Web 2.0 as a platform that leveraged collective intelligence. There is still [...] Read more
Zynga Announces New Investment from Kleiner Perkins and IVP
Fred Wilson – Jul 23, 2008
Our portfolo company Zynga closed a $29mm round of financing last week which was led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP. We participated in the round, as did other investors Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. Bing Gordon, co-founder of Electronic Arts [...] Read more
10gen
Albert Wenger – Jul 20, 2008
My love for computers and software started as a teenager growing up in Germany. I fondly remember my Apple II which followed my TI 59. I early on discovered that I could earn money with my programming skills and wound [...] Read more
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Andy Weissman – Jul 20, 2008
14 tracks - great design and concept - online music sales grouped around concepts of 14TiltViewerTwitter search for "WTF is up with" (via mediaeater)Twitter acquiring SummizePoketoZemantaTrendrrconversational search Read more
Twitter Acquires Summize
Fred Wilson – Jul 15, 2008
Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that it has acquired a company called Summize. We have known the Summize team and have followed their progress for the past year. Summize has developed a real time search engine for conversational media [...] Read more
Things I Like Lately
Andy Weissman – Jul 8, 2008
TipjoyAdNectarSeedcampBit.lyTinydb (and Quickerly built on top of it)Structuring unstructured data Read more