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• Grandparents.com Connecting Generations

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:41 pm

  Tags: Social Networking, Web2 0 Startups

  Grandparents.com is a new site for the “modern-day” grandparent. The service has not yet launched, but is scheduled to go live later this fall. The site will aim to be a meeting ground for grandparents and their grandchildren, and will feature information about activities to do with the youngsters, some travel and gift ideas, and

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• RSS Mixer could be Twitter without the Social Network

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:40 pm

  Tags: Web2 0 Startups

  RSS Mixer is a new service that will combine all of your feeds into one. A feed aggregator, if you will. Take your favorite feeds and combine them into one. RSS Mixer will provide you a URL with your master feed, along with downloadable widget options and formats, including one for your iPhone, one for your personal website or blog, a regular

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• Stickam's Webcam Facebook App

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:39 pm

  Tags: Social Networking, Web2 0 Startups

  There’s a Stickam Facebook application that’s been launched, and it’s a bit more social than the application released by the other live webcam tool, UStream. With the Stickam app you can display your player on your Facebook profile, start up a chat from your profile page, find other Stickam friends on Facebook, and sync the

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• Profile Builder Launching Centralized & Portable Info Page

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Social Software, Web2 0 Startups

  Profile Builder is a new tool that lets you create an online profile and provide access to it pretty much anywhere on the web. The profiles you create with this service combine all of the pertinent info about you. There’s an about me section, a place for your blog, other sections for your photos and videos, a Jukebox music player, and a

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• Geezeo Offers Financial Goals Feature for Better Tracking Tools

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:24 pm

  Tags: Web2 0 Startups

  Geezeo, the site that lets you better track your personal finances within a helpful community, has launched a new feature called Geezeo Financial Goals. with this feature, you can create a new goal and connect it to a bank account or one of your tags. Since your accounts are updated every night, the progress of you’re reaching your goal is

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• TrustedOpinion Funded & Integrating Netflix Direct Recommendations

  Published: July 27, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: Search, Web2 0 Startups, People Powered, Apis

  TrustedOpinion, the free online community that lets you create a personal recommendation circle of friends, has integrated Netflix queuing into its system. You can now get Netflix queuing directly from DVD review pages within the Netflix recommendation network. This essentially combines the TrustedIOpinion system with your existing Netflix

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• iRovr: The iPhone Social Network

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Startups

  iRovr is a social network built specifically for the iPhone. As near as I can tell, it launched to the public about 10 days ago and has just over 400 users. iRovr is not the first iPhone specific social networking site (iPHONEcolony, which is mostly a blogging application, predates it), but I think it probably the most complete and perhaps the

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• Hakia Launches Semantic Highlighter and Scoop Button

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Startups

  Today hakia added a hakia highlighter to their “meaning-based” search engine, producing a highlighted sentence inside a search result. The bigger announcement is tomorrow, when hakia will launch a scoop button - a browser plug-in that not only highlights text, but when you click on a result page it scrolls automatically to the

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• 50 ThinkFree Premium Invites For R/WW Readers

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:19 pm

  Tags: Startups

  Web Office suite vendor ThinkFree has offered 50 invites to get into the ThinkFree Premium closed beta. The first 50 respondees who send an email to the inbox readwriteweb@thinkfree.com will get a fully-licensed version of ThinkFree Premium to evaluate. I'm not sure at this point how long the evaluation period is, so I've sent an email to

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• SeeqPod Music and Recommendation Search Engine

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:58 pm

  Tags: Startups

  The team behind SeeqPod, a music search and recommendation engine, believes strongly in what they call "playable search." SeeqPod trawls the web, indexing all the music files it finds, and then offers them for playback direct from that location. The company knows that because they are not hosting any music files, but are merely offering links to

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• FormatPixel: High-Quality Webtop Publishing

  Published: July 26, 2007, 7:43 am

  Tags: Startups

  The world of webtop publishing (WTP) has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years, with plenty of services feeling as good, if not better, than many standard desktop packages. This is particularly true in the case of Microsoft Word-alikes such as Google Docs (née Writely), ThinkFree and Zoho Writer, which were featured in Josh

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• 37Signals Relaunches Backpack Organizational Tool

  Published: July 25, 2007, 6:36 pm

  Tags: Startups

  37Signals relaunched their Backpack service today. The app's back end code was completely rebuilt from scratch, according to Jason Fried, and the service also got a new UI to match some of 37Signals' other recently updated products (such as Basecamp). The design still feels very familiar to any 37Signals app user, however. There are a number of

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• Find a Garage Sale on ZipGarage

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:31 pm

  Tags: Startups

  ZipGarage is a new site for garage sale enthusiasts to list and scout out local garage sales (or rummage sales, or yard sales, or whatever your preferred nomenclature) in the United States. The site is absolutely dead simple and completely free, and was created by 365Labs. Finding sales on ZipGarage is as easy as entering your zip code and

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• GoAuPairs Matches Travelers with Host Families

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:07 pm

  Tags: Social Networking, Web2 0 Startups

  GoAuPairs is a new site that matches people with host families around the world. You can create a profile as an individual or as a family, in an effort to portray your interests and find the best match for what you’re looking for. As an Au Pair is someone that’s on par, living as an equal, the purpose of the site is to best match an

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• CoolIris Gets $1M of its $3M Series A Round

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:15 am

  Tags: Search, Web2 0 Startups

  CoolIris, the link preview service, has secured about $1 million of a $3.05 million Series A round. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufiled & Byers. Randy Komisar, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, has also taken a seat on CoolIris’ board. The service itself is pretty cool, and helpful. It works as a browser add-on and lets you

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