Category Archives: startups

Mint’s Top Down Thinking 1

Mint seems cool and all but: CEO Aaron Patzer reports to us that, in just the past three weeks, Mint has already helped organize more than $2 billion worth of people’s personal financial accounts, and identified more than $40 million in potential savings for those members. First. This is potential savings. Also. this works out [...]

Categories: startups,web2.0

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October 8, 2007 – 4:58 pm
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Announcing New Versions of Spinn3r and Tailrank 0

This is a big day for us. We’re announcing new versions of both Tailrank and Spinn3r. The first big announcement is Spinn3r 2.0: After nearly a year in development, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spinn3r 2.0. We’ve also been heads down working on Tailrank as well and are announcing Tailrank 2.5 today as [...]

Categories: crawler,search,spinn3r,startups,tailrank,web2.0

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October 4, 2007 – 11:14 am
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The Facebook Fund Fine Print 0

I sent off an email to the Facebook Fund platform submission email address and received this response. During this process, however, it has become clear that we will receive proposals which contain similar or even identical ideas. As a result, and in order to protect other developers and us from claims that we or anyone [...]

Categories: startups,venture capital,web2.0

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September 22, 2007 – 10:21 am
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Google Cloning Rojo with Google Reader 0

Google is getting closer and closer to cloning Rojo with Google Reader. First they added search and now they’re apparently adding more functionality. The search functionality in particular was interesting because I implemented the first round of Rojo search based on Lucene. An internal presentation leaked onto the web and apparently they’re going to be [...]

Categories: google,rojo,search,startups,tailrank,web2.0

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September 11, 2007 – 12:01 pm
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Techcrunch Puts Tailrank in Deadpool – Far from the Truth 4

This morning Arrington decided to put Tailrank in the deadpool: I emailed founder Kevin Burton late yesterday to see what the problem was. He responded “Just in the middle of a big uprade to Spinn3r which is causing more work for Tailrank. Basically a large infrastructure upgrade.” Shortly thereafter the site went live again, but [...]

Categories: startups,tailrank,web2.0

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July 2, 2007 – 9:13 am
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Scoble Thinks Winer Invented Offline Support 2

What the HECK is Scoble smoking here? Is he REALLY asserting that somehow Dave Winer deserves credit for inventing offline aggregation? A built-in RSS aggregator. That let me read feeds in a river-of-news format. It even worked offline (I used it back then to read feeds on plane rides and I could write blog posts [...]

Categories: open source,startups

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June 1, 2007 – 7:40 pm
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More Google Distributed Systems Architecture 0

Jonathan Moore and I watched this stream live over the web today. What was funny is that during the talk we kept saying “check” as we had a lot of the infrastructure work they implemented. For example, they’re doing vertical table partitioning in Big Table. Anyway.. There’s more information surfacing here. I’m going to have [...]

Categories: clustering,google,linux,open source,startups

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May 31, 2007 – 10:59 pm
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StartupSearch 0

Check out Startup Search…. (which True was nice enough to sponsor). Tailrank is there of course… Looks like we’re one of the top ranked companies! Also, check out The Funded which is kind of the inverse.

Categories: startups,web2.0

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May 31, 2007 – 10:09 pm
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Twitter Raising a VC Round? 0

Apparently, Twitter is raising a VC round: VB: Are you raising a round of capital now? Williams: We are raising our first outside round. VB: Can you disclose the amount? Williams: No. VB: You just starting that round now? Williams: We are about half-way through the process. We’ve been trying to decide who we want [...]

Categories: startups,web2.0

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May 30, 2007 – 8:48 pm
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Google Gears, Rojo, and Offline Storage 1

Google Gears launches today and brings together a lot of open loops in my career. While at Rojo, we spent a lot of time talking about offline storage. NewsMonster was the first RSS aggregator that added full offline support (which I’m still proud of – only took Google five years!) and we generally wanted it [...]

Categories: aggregation,ajax,google,open source,rojo,startups,web2.0

Published:
May 30, 2007 – 7:36 pm
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