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• Braves Acquire Royce Ring

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:05 pm

  Tags: Atlanta Braves, Royce Ring, San Diego Padres, Wilfredo Ledezma, Will Startup

  from the Padres for Will Startup and Wil Ledezma. Should be nice to have Ring around in case things don't work out with Ron Mahay. Still, it would've been nice to see John Schuerholz come up with some kind of starter for the back end of the rotation.  Maybe in August. Startup's been solid in Triple A, and the Padres might be able to

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• SeeqPod Scouring The Web For Music

  Published: August 10, 2007, 12:36 am

  Tags: Beta, Internet, Music, Music Search, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Search, Seeqpod, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Iphone

  SeeqPod, a "playable search" product born in the UC's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, offers music search that scours the Web for music in both audio and video formats. Upon finding music you can play it immediately and add it to a playlist which can then be embedded into other pages like the playlist I quickly pulled together

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• Global Grind: Startpage For Hip Hop Gen?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 12:15 am

  Tags: Ajax, Beta, Feeds, Global Grind, Media 2 0, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Homepage

  2.0 personalized home page startup that is said to be focused on the "hip hop" generation. Being a "hip hop" listener I was curious to see what this intriguing value proposition was all about. Driven by curiosity, which was said to have killed the cat, I was expecting Global Grind personalized home page to bounce with a Jay-Z hip hop beat or

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• spigit Simulates To Help Innovation

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:49 am

  Tags: Beta, Blogging, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Community, Content, Data, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Games, Innovation, Media 2 0, Small Business, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0

  in mid-July to offer up a startup simulation game to help entrepreneurs showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process connect with a network of professionals. Spigit seems to have blended a multiply player online simulation game with a social network while aimed at creating a new company. Spigit can act as a testing ground for new

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• Contactify For Quick, Easy Contact Forms

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:11 pm

  Tags: Contactify, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Email

  contact for submitting a new startup, site or service by leveraging a startup called Contactify. It made creating an email form easy. Contactify makes it possible to remain contactable, with never revealing your email address. I simply signed up for Contactify with my email address and a user id is generated for your form. By pulling in my

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• Amazon Buys Into Amie Street Approach

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:06 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Amie Street, Business, Community, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Media 2 0, Music, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  Rhode Island-based music startup with an interesting online  music business model by allowing prices to be based on artist interest and demand, has taken a Series A round of funding led by Amazon.com. Though many were skeptical of Amie Street's model, I thought Amie Street could disrupt the music industry and it turns out Amazon.com is

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• KnockaTV Is Coming But What Is It?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:38 am

  Tags: Beta, Community, Entertainment, Knockatv, Media 2 0, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Television, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  KnockaTV is coming, according to the vintage "I want my MTV" style video that is playing on the site (go to the site to see what I am taking about). I just signed up for a beta tester account for KnockaTV last night and this morning I noticed TechCrunch also is looking at the video service but we both have about the same amount of information.

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• HotSwap: Video Listings For Used Autos

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:52 am

  Tags: Advertising, Business, Cars, Hotswap, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  Buying a car is a definitely a pain in the butt, as it takes a lot of time and effort. I have been thinking about it for a few months now but haven't yet rallied enough energy to do it. Wouldn't be nice if buying a car could be done by simply watching an online video? Now you sort of can. HotSwap offers free online video auto listings that

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• Personalize Your Photos With Graphita

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:37 pm

  Tags: Fun, Graphita, Media 2 0, Orli Yakuel, Personalization, Personalized, Photography, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Photos, Web2 0expo, Web2expo

  Does the photo below look familiar? You might recall the photo of myself with my good friend and popular blogger Orli Yakuel, which I clowned with the Graphita tool-set for a TechCrunch article I wrote while at Web 2.0 Expo last April. Graphita has officially launched Live Studio to make it easy to express yourself through annotating your

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• Things You Want or Have Get BoxedUp

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:27 pm

  Tags: Aggregator, Amazon, Beta, Boxedup, Media 2 0, Recommendations, Search, Shopping, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tags, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, E Commerce

  Looking to make it easier to for people to keep track of the items that they want BoxedUp.com offers a place to help users shop and share for items that they may want. Founded in London by Chris Osborne and Jeremy Baines, the three employee team has recently morphed and rebranded its product from Gifttagging.com, a site focused on just

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• Gary The Vlogging Wine King On Conan

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Celebrity, Community, Cork D, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Event, Food Drink, Fun, Gary Vaynerchuk, Media 2 0, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Television, Video

  Gary Vaynerchuk, the host of WineLibrary.com's video blog Wine Library TV is a pretty entertaining guy. I got a chance to see Gary's energy in action a few months back when he both demo'ed and sponsored at TECH cocktail DC 1. Gary's love for wine and charismatic personality has created quite a following on the Web which has resulted in being

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• StreetAdvisor A Street Level Local Guide

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Ajax, Beta, Community, Data, Mapping, Media 2 0, Real Estate, Resource, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Streetadvisor, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Wiki

  an Australia-based startup, publicly launch a few months ago to provide an online real estate community powered by crowd-sourced reviews, photos, and videos. Brothers Adam and Jason Spencer wanted to create a site that provided a good amount of information of what it is like to live on any particular street in the world. With a fresh

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• TECH cocktail In Beantown Sign-up Now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:54 pm

  Tags: Business, Community, Compete, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Eric Olson, Event, Fun, Geezo, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Zoominfo, Boston, Techcocktailbost

  Last week I mentioned that TECH cocktail, an event I co-founded with Eric Olson, was coming soon to Boston and now I am pleased to announce that you can now sign-up for TECH cocktail Boston. Here are the details: Date: Thursday, September 6th Time: 6:30pm - 9pm Venue: Tequila Rain  (on Lansdowne Street right behind Fenway Park) Cost: $0

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• MetroProper: Give Props To Local Scene

  Published: August 14, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Beta, Business, Community, Digg, Linkedin, Local, Metroproper, Myspace, Search, Shopping, Small Business, Social Bookmarking, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Craigslist

  MetroProper, a Chicago-based startup founded by Philip Tardos, will soon be launching into the public beta, after an extended private beta period which started in July 2006. MetroProper is a social network for business or personal profiles with citizen journalism in cities around the world. MetroProper combines elements of craigslist,

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• Next Safety developing nicotine-delivery device to curb smoking

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:55 pm

  Tags: Cigarettes, Health, Medical, Next Safety, Nextsafety, Nicotine, North Carolina, Northcarolina, Rtp, Smoking, Startup, Tobacco

  this North Carolina-based startup plans to bring a "nicotine-delivery product" to market which would actually "deliver nicotine to the brain faster and safer than cigarettes," all while protecting children and nonsmokers from secondhand smoke. Interestingly, the pulmonary drug-deliverer (which works similarly to a medical inhaler) is said to

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