Blekko — allegedly a search engine has just scored another round of funding according to Mike Arrington at Techcrunch — Blekko raised 3 million at a 23 million post money valuation.
Mike is (implicitly) comparing Blekko to Cuill. Cuill (pronounced “cool”) also in stealth mode claims to have a much cheaper, and more efficient way of [...]
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Powerset finally came out of private beta this Sunday with a search product around Wikipedia, and Freebase.
It will be interesting to see how competitor Hakia responds.
I’m a little underwhelmed with powerset, especially since it is searching semi-structured data where some of the relationships are more explicit than out in the wild.
http://20bits.com/2008/05/12/powerset-launches-verdict-meh/
http://venturebeat.com/2008/05/12/powerset-opens-to-everyone-now-whats-next/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/11/powerset-launches-showcase-for-user-search-experience/
http://gigaom.com/2008/05/11/powerset-is-live/
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Spock Proxy , developed at Spock.com seems like a mysql-proxy work-alike except that it makes sharding or horizontal partitioning of the database easy and transparent (or at least that is the idea).
The Spock Proxy project page mentions that Spoke is built on Rails, and ActiveRecord, but from the description it seems like this could be [...]
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Marketcetera, the “open source” Automated Stock Trading has tickled the funny bone of the blog hype machine…
All the other cool kids(Ostatic, VentureBeat, The Open Road) are blogging about “Marketcetera” so I’ll yield and follow along…
The platform which is currently at the 0.4.2 release — 1.0 scheduled for Q3 2008 uses the “FIX” protocol to execute [...]
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Amazon has finally launched two features that have prevented its EC2 service from really taking on conventional web hosts: Static IPs (aka Elastic IPs) and “Availability Zones.”
The “Elastic IPs” come with a little “Amazon special sauce” and can be re-assigned to your EC2 instances programatically on the fly. There are some initial limits, currently you [...]
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I started following the “Can Google Hear Me” when everyone did (it hit digg.com). They’ve finally launched their project BookLamp — and I’m a little bit disappointed — it is essentially “Pandora for books”.
The interesting thing is that they are running their startup in a “choose your own adventure way” soliciting advice from their users [...]
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Wired has a list of its top ten startups to watch in 2008. There are some predictable ones (23 and me)… but a few surprises such as AdMob and Dash.
Here is a link to Wired: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/YE_10_startups
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There is a new crawler on the block — the VisBot has been making its rounds. The seemingly legitimate crawler led me to its companies site: Visvo — and I like what I’ve found. Why does Visvo matter among this new wave of search start ups? Three reasons: 1) Each search result has an explain [...]
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