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- iPhone Beats Droid, Nexus One And Droid Eris In Touchscreen Performance
- Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Facebook Takes Best Overall For The Hat Trick
- Live: Watch The Crunchies, Right Here
- Coming To The Crunchies After-Party? Donate With Square.
- Sweet Seeds: Zynga Has Raised Over $1 Million For School Children In Haiti
- Ex-Spot Runner Creative Chief Takes Former Employer Head On With AgencyDivision
- BlockChalk Is Location-Based Sidewalk Chalk For Your Mobile Device
- HootSuite Raises $1.9 Million For Social Media Dashboard
- Ning SVP Engineering Lands At Facebook In Mystery Role
- CES 2010: Highlights So Far
- Foursquare Goes Global, Bringing New iPhone, Pre, BlackBerry, And Web Apps With It
- Google’s Free Airport WiFi Is A Nexus One Promo In Disguise
- At The Dawn Of The Apocalypse, One Man Battles The Zombies — On Twitter
- The FBI Adds New Widgets And Facebook Quizzes To Its Social Media Arsenal
- Yet Another App Store. This Time, It’s Intel
- Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics or How To Get Under John Borthwick’s Skin
- Did You Know? CrunchGear Is Streaming Live Right Now
- Facebook Launches Fellowship Program To Promote Social Computing Research
- Reframe It Raises $2.3 Million For Web Annotation Product
| iPhone Beats Droid, Nexus One And Droid Eris In Touchscreen Performance Posted: 09 Jan 2010 07:06 AM PST
To be honest, I don’t really care which is the better smartphone (or super-duper phone): the iPhone 3GS, the Motorola Droid, HTC’s Droid Eris, Google’s Nexus One, Nokia’s N900 or the Palm Pre. It’s just great to witness this seemingly never-ending advancements in mobile technology, both on a hardware and software level, and to see increased competition drive innovation at such rapid pace. Just compare the market today to five years ago, and you can’t help but be amazed by how far we’ve come – I still remember my epic struggles to get my previous phone (HTC S710 with Windows Mobile) to do half of what I really wanted it to. In short: if all phone manufacturers keep on pumping out better phones, I’m a happy camper (for the record: I’m still very pleased with my iPhone 3GS as my primary device). But comparisons will be comparisons, and MOTO Development Group this morning announced the results of its DIY touchscreen analysis, based on some touchy testing of the capacitive screens of the Nexus One, the iPhone, the Motorola Droid and HTC’s Droid Eris. MOTO has a lot of experience developing products that use capacitive touch, and its team members have put their fingers on a good number of smartphones over the past few years. After using DIY techniques to test touchscreen performance (see video below) in combination with more sophisticated testing tools, MOTO has concluded that not all touch-screens are created equal. And that the iPhone’s screen performs slightly better than that of its rivals. Below is a visualization of the test results, based on MOTO’s drawing of straight diagonal lines across the screen using both light and medium pressure of the fingers. And in its own words why the iPhone has a slight edge over the Nexus One, Droid and Droid Eris:
Are you happy with your smartphone’s touchscreen performance?
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| Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Facebook Takes Best Overall For The Hat Trick Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:27 PM PST
We’d like to take a moment to point out Facebook’s win for “Best Overall Startup Or Product”, which marks the third year in a row that the company has taken home the top prize. Facebook continues to innovate and deploy features at an impressive rate while still showing incredible growth. Ours hats go off to you. If you’d like to watch the event for yourself, you can watch an archived version of the live stream here. Best Technology Achievement: Best Internet Application: Best Social App: Best Bootstrapped StartUp: Best Mobile Application: Best International: Best Time Sink Application: Best Design: Best Enterprise: Best CleanTech: Best New Gadget: Best Tech PR: Best Angel: Best VC Firm: Founder Of The Year: CEO Of The Year: Best New Startup Or Product Of 2009: Best Overall Startup Or Product Of 2009: Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
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| Live: Watch The Crunchies, Right Here Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:11 PM PST
We realize that not everyone who wanted to attend was able to get a ticket (they sold out quickly), and that San Francisco is a pretty long trip for some of you, so we’re streaming the entire event live with help from Ustream. You can watch the video using the embed below. Tonight’s show is a joint effort between GigaOm, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch, and we couldn’t be more thrilled with the turnout. Enjoy the show! Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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| Coming To The Crunchies After-Party? Donate With Square. Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:10 PM PST
Tonight after the Crunchies is an after-party taking place at City Hall in San Francisco. Staff members of TechCrunch will be there with a couple of iPhone/iPod touches to accept donations on behalf of UCSF Foundation using Square, the new startup founded by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey. These donations are of course voluntary, but we’re suggesting you give $20 if you’re choose to donate to the cause. If you don’t want to donate, feel free to to just stop by and check out Square — it’s quite impressive in action. Hope to see you there. Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
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| Sweet Seeds: Zynga Has Raised Over $1 Million For School Children In Haiti Posted: 08 Jan 2010 08:55 PM PST
Anyway you slice it, it’s a pretty impressive number. But it’s even more impressive when you consider that this million dollars came just from the sale of one virtual good within Farmville: Sweet seeds. Zynga has sold over $2 million worth of these seeds (back in October, the number was just over $800,000) with a full 50% of the sales going to the charity. Pincus tells us that they decided on the 50% number because they wanted people to realize they were serious about giving money to a charity while at the same time keeping this a meaningful business. And it’s a model that works because these sweet seeds have value for the users in Farmville as well. In fact, Pincus envisions a future where this type of charitable virtual good market is worth a billion dollars. And to get there, he actually hopes his competitors use the idea as well. Watch more in the video below. We apologize for the blurriness. It happens. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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| Ex-Spot Runner Creative Chief Takes Former Employer Head On With AgencyDivision Posted: 08 Jan 2010 08:45 PM PST
We’ve written many times about Spot Runner, the Los Angeles startup that is trying to apply web advertising techniques to TV, after the company was embroiled in controversy over the past year amidst massive layoffs and an alleged “pump and dump” scheme. WPP sued the Spot Runner for securities fraud and the lawsuit was later dismissed. It looks like some good may have come out of the mess. Simon Foster, Spot Runner’s head of creative operations, has started AgencyDivision, an ad agency that wants to help tech companies start TV ad campaigns. Foster claims that his team was responsible for nearly 90 percent of Spot Runner’s revenue over the past three years and saw an opportunity to flee the sinking ship. He took several of his team members and set of AgencyDivision, which takes a spin on the ‘open source’ advertising model. The startup aims to help launch Internet businesses into TV advertising through highly analytical and ROI positive TV campaigns. Foster says the agency just completed a TV commercial for one of Spot Runner’s largest clients (which is unnamed) and expects to see more clients cross over. Fosters’ AgencyDivision team basically had a similar role at Spot Runner, where they helped launch TV advertising campaigns ranging from local mom-and-pops to many nationally recognizable brands. The startup just launched recently, so it should be interesting to see if AgencyDivision can actually steal some of Spot Runner’s Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
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| BlockChalk Is Location-Based Sidewalk Chalk For Your Mobile Device Posted: 08 Jan 2010 03:03 PM PST
The service, created by Stephen Hood, the former product team lead for Delicious, and Dave Baggeroer of Stanford’s Institute of Design, works because they keep it simple. You load up the application on your mobile device, it locates you, and you leave a message. This can be whatever you want: A note about a good cafe, a tip of something in the neighborhood to watch out for, a request to borrow something that someone else may have in the neighborhood, etc. When other people also using the app come upon the area that you’ve pinned your “Chalk” (their word for message) to, they’ll see it on their screen in a stream of Chalks. And you can do a bit more with these Chalks. With the service’s new iPhone app, if you use the syntax “[here],” BlockChalk will put in your exact location. You can also attach a link to a location on a map by inserting an actual address in those same brackets. If you don’t do either of these, BlockChalk will hide your exact location, and keep your message pinned to the general area instead. Once you drill down to a specific Chalk, you can choose to “Chalkback” (respond publicly to a message), “Reply Privately” (respond just to the user who left the Chalk), “Bury,” or “Share,” the chalk. While I noted the service’s new iPhone app (which you can find in the App Store here as a free download), it’s already available on a number of other platforms thanks to some more advanced web technology. For example, you can use it on Android phones (or the mobile web of the iPhone, for that matter) because the web-based version of BlockChalk uses HTML5 to access location through the browser, Hood tells us. Obviously, that’s a vital part of the app. There is also a webOS BlockChalk app already that will work on the Palm Pre or Pixi. Hood notes that they are currently working on native apps for Android and BlackBerry as we speak. Thanks to this mobile web usage, BlockChalk is already available in some 93 countries, 6751 cities and 10910 neighborhoods. And while the obvious integration with Twitter’s new location feature is pretty loose right now, Hood tells us that in the next release, it will be much tighter. The company is in the process of raising a seed round of funding. And while obviously they’ve declined to say how much they’re looking to raise, we hear Hood’s old Delicious counterpart Joshua Schachter is interested. That shouldn’t be surprising given his recent location-based investments. Learn more in the video below: Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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| HootSuite Raises $1.9 Million For Social Media Dashboard Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:44 PM PST
HootSuite, a social media dashboard, has raised $1.9 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. Vancouver-based HootSuite, which dubs itself as “the professional Twitter client,” lets users manage their Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Ping.fm accounts through one interface. With HootSuite, users can manage multiple Twitter profiles with multiple editors on each, schedule tweets, track stats, RSS their content, and more. Launched in 2008, HootSuite also has an iPhone app and recently integrated the ability to publish to Wordpress blogs. HootSuite faces competition from other all-in one social media dashboards including TweetDeck, PeopleBrowsr, and Seesmic (which just acquired Ping.fm) Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
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| Ning SVP Engineering Lands At Facebook In Mystery Role Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:23 PM PST
Facebook confirms his employment, saying “We’re pleased that Jay Parikh has joined Facebook. Jay joined us in November, and will play an integral role in our engineering efforts.” What Facebook won’t say is what his title is, what he’s working on, or who he’s working for. Which is somewhat odd for such a senior executive. Parikh has yet to update his LinkedIn profile with any Facebook information either. The giant sucking sound everyone hears in Palo Alto is Facebook hiring every competent engineer they can get their hands on, so it’s no wonder that Jay ended up at the fast growing company. What’s more interesting is why he left Ning. A few other high profile employees have moved on from Ning in recent months as well. But from what we hear they are being replaced by others, and total headcount is still growing. Ning’s product continues to evolve, and it isn’t always smooth sailing. In November the company stripped out a cross-Ning Network activity feed for users because the product wasn’t being used. That project took up most of the dev team’s time for a nine month period, a former employee tells us. So it was a costly misstep. Comscore shows worldwide unique visitors at Ning at nearly 19 million, roughly double the number of visitors from a year earlier. The site continues to grow. It’s just not clear that the users, or even Ning’s management, quite know what it will be when it grows up. Update: Facebook says “Jay is a Director of Engineering working within Mike Schroepfer’s organization.” Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
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| Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:04 PM PST  Before I get to the highlights, allow me to point out that we have resumed the live stream. The guys are headed to the international booths, usually filled with quirky gadgets and eager exhibitors, and also known as USB Alley. But if that's not your thing, get ready to open up a few tabs with the best stuff we've seen so far. We've gone hands-on with the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, as well as Lenovo's impressive Lephone and Motorola's Backflip, a hot pants device that is descended from the Cliq. We also checked out some e-book readers: Plastic Logic's Que, the dual-screen Alex, and Samsung's E6. Kodak's got a nice new waterproof camcorder, Memorex has one with a sexy touchscreen, and Razer is showing off a motion control device that was actually quite impressive. We've also been all over the media: Matt was on TechVi, I was on CNN, and Nicholas was on TWiT.tv. And of course, all our live streams are available on demand in the player.
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| Foursquare Goes Global, Bringing New iPhone, Pre, BlackBerry, And Web Apps With It Posted: 08 Jan 2010 01:42 PM PST
Since getting its funding late last year, Foursquare has been spending much of its time rapidly expanding the list of cities the service is available in. But the reality was that it couldn’t expand this way fast enough. So it should be no surprise that they’re throwing that all away. Yes, as the service has officially announced today (as CNET scooped a few days ago), you can now use Foursquare anywhere in the world. And there’s a lot more they’ve been working on as well. Of the new things, perhaps most notable is that the service is now on a wide variety of platforms. While it’s been out for the iPhone and Android for some time now, the Palm Pre finally has an app, as does BlackBerry, which will officially launch next week (5,000 people are currently testing it, including some TechCrunch staffers). Also of note is that Foursquare is completely redesigning both its website and its iPhone app. We’ve been using an early build of the newest version of the iPhone app (1.5) for a few weeks now, and it definitely looks nicer and seems to run more smoothly. This latest version, which should hit the App Store soon, will officially remove the city-based restrictions and improved the location-finding abilities of the app.
With the move away from cities, you’ll no longer have duplicate badges for various things, such as “Newbie,” the first time you check-in to a city, but instead these will all be consolidated. That said, there will still be badges that you can only get in certain cities. The aforementioned point system is also getting tweaked. Again, because of the move away from the idea of “cities,” Foursquare will now have a point leaderboard that is based around proximity rather than an entire city. For example, you may see that you’re among the point leaders in a 25 mile radius. And Foursquare hints that the entire point system is going to be overhauled at some point in the near future to make the game more interesting, and to curb cheating. Another big change to the service is that you will no longer be required to use an address to create a new venue. This was the biggest barrier to entry in doing so, and Foursquare is making it option by tagging the place you are creating with your GPS coordinates. This is a bit risky since there will likely be a flood of fake or wrong venues now, but it’s obviously important for the global expansion. This method is similar to what rival Gowalla does when users add new venues. The problem with GPS tagging is that it doesn’t work well indoors, but the services are slowly getting better at using other means (WiFi triangulation) to get the location data too. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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| Google’s Free Airport WiFi Is A Nexus One Promo In Disguise Posted: 08 Jan 2010 01:33 PM PST
This is yet another example of the unconventional marketing blitz that Google has ready for its first phone, which also includes a prominent ad on Google’s famously spartan homepage. You can’t really fault Google for doing this. After all, they are giving airport Wi-Fi (which often costs $5-10 or more) away for free. And other free airport Wifi certainly isn’t afraid to plaster your screen with ads. We’ve reached out to Google to see if the redirect is happening at every free airport Wi-Fi hotspot, or only at some of them. Update: A Google spokesperson confirms that some WIFi users are directed to the web store, but says that Google also directs some users to other promotions depending on browser type, their existing settings and cookies. Thanks to Charlie White for the tip Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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| At The Dawn Of The Apocalypse, One Man Battles The Zombies — On Twitter Posted: 08 Jan 2010 01:07 PM PST
This man, Gus, in Miami, Florida has been tweeting relentlessly for the past month as if the world is at and end. Or as he puts it in his bio, “Zombies are everywhere and this is my diary of the apocalypse.” Among other things, he’s documented his first zombie scratch (and relief that he was still human afterwards), his scavenging for food at abandoned gas stations, and of course, plenty of zombie sightings. To add to the tale, Gus is even taking somewhat elaborate TwitPics of his adventure. For example, here’s a picture of a dead person (covered in blood) that Gus lifted some keys from. He’s also made a video, of some zombies apparently chasing him, that you can barely see. Overall, a solid effort, and something that should keep the zombie-crazed Internet amused until Gus’ inevitable demise at the hands of zombies.
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| The FBI Adds New Widgets And Facebook Quizzes To Its Social Media Arsenal Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:36 PM PST
The first is a new Video Widget that allows users to embed the Bureau’s videos in their webpages and blogs. It’s a pretty standard widget, but the content is obviously more serious than your average YouTube video — and it could actually help catch a few bad guys. After you’ve embedded it, the widget will stay updated as the FBI uploads new content. Next is a new Facebook Quiz on the FBI’s Facebook Page, which the Bureau describes as a “a light-hearted quiz to determine what kind of FBI career best suits you: Special agent? IT professional? Intelligence analyst? Even the FBI Director?” Quizzes can be kind of lame, but they’re a great way to engage a broad audience. Finally, the FBI has detailed some of the updates that have been made to the free FBI Most Wanted iPhone application that was developed by NIC. The app features the FBI’s most wanted list, as well as breaking news related to missing children, children, and terrorism. The latest update to the app allows you to locate the nearest FBI office using geolocation. The FBI says that the application has now been downloaded over 670,000 times. The FBI has actually been quite active on social media before now — they’ve previously launched a Most Wanted widget, and established profiles on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
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| Yet Another App Store. This Time, It’s Intel Posted: 08 Jan 2010 11:42 AM PST  Intel CEO Paul Otellini at CES announced an app store for applications on netbooks. The store is called AppUp Center, and it's a place where users can purchase programs that cater to a netbooks' unique screen size and mobility. Intel AppUp center launched today for Windows and will support Moblin-based open source operating systems and a number of runtime environments later this year. The first set of apps are now available for download, for free or to purchase, and more will be added as they are validated. App categories include entertainment, business, games, education, health and social media. Additionally, Acer, ASUS, Dell and Samsung have announced plans to collaborate with Intel on their own app stores.
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| Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics or How To Get Under John Borthwick’s Skin Posted: 08 Jan 2010 11:25 AM PST
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics, as Mark Twain once said. A couple days ago, I wrote a post titled, “What Happened To bit.ly's Market Share” after I noticed some new statistics on TweetMeme which suggested that the market share for short URLs has shifted in the past few months and is actually diversifying as more and more short URLs inundate the Web. John Borthwick, the investor who incubated bit.ly and then spun it off from betaworks, didn’t like that headline because it called into question bit.ly’s continued dominance. He also didn’t like it because there was a problem with the underlying statistics. Previously, the TweetMeme stats showed only the top 5 URL shortening services in a given 24-hour period. But then TweetMeme took down the stats for a couple months while it reworked the underlying architecture to better scale with the incredible growth in these kinds of links. When the stats quietly came back over the holidays, they looked different. Instead of bit.ly showing a 70 to 80 percent share of shortened links on Twitter, it only had 56 percent (today it’s at 58 percent). One reason for the change was that TweetMeme was counting differently. It now included “other” as a category, whereas before it only showed the relative share of the top five players. Indeed, if you look at relative share, bit.ly is still in the mid-70s. Borthwick pointed this out to me privately via email and I corrected the post. It was something that I missed, but I wasn’t the only one who missed it. Borthwick and Andrew Cohen at bit.ly missed it when I ran the numbers by them prior to posting, and even TweetMeme’s Nick Halstead didn’t catch it. In fact, he told me the data was comparable. I added the correction but didn’t change the headline because it was still a valid question. The numbers had changed. Why? Borthwick still wasn’t happy, so he wrote his own post this morning with a deliberately misleading headline (“charting the real time web OR the curious tale of how TechCrunch traffic inexplicably fell off a cliff in December”) to make his displeasure known. Duly noted. Of course, the headline got the post on Techmeme even though you have to get halfway through the post to find out “I actually don't have any data to suggest that happened.” Borthwick also offered some of bit.ly’s own data suggesting that it still has a 68.6 percent share of total short links on Twitter (see his table below). Now 68 percent does sound better than 58 percent., and it’s pretty darn close to the 70% bit.ly constantly cites as its market share. But here’s the thing. Borthwick’s data is based on something known as the Twitter “garden hose.” It is a trickle of data that is a sample of the Tweets going through the service. You can see that by looking at the number of occurrences for each short URL: 4,193 for bit.ly, 6,112 for all of them. TweetMeme’s stats are based on a much bigger set of data: the so-called “firehose.” After filtering for only Tweets with links in them, TweetMeme’s stats are based on more than 3 million Tweets a day. I think I’ll go with TweetMeme’s numbers, but God bless Borthwick for trying to put his company in the best light. Yes, the numbers changed. But now we know that bit.ly’s market share was never 80 percent to begin with. That’s not to say that bit.ly is not growing like gangbusters. It is—bit.ly went from shortening 12 million links to more than 2 billon in a year. But so is the rest of the market, which is diversifying and fragmenting as new short-link domains inundate the Web, including ones which are not general-purpose link shorteners but rather tied to specific sites or apps, such as goo.gl or wp.me (Wordpress). We can argue about statistics all we want. The more interesting question is can bit.ly continue to dominate? For the record, I actually think they have a good shot.
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| Did You Know? CrunchGear Is Streaming Live Right Now Posted: 08 Jan 2010 11:19 AM PST  Yesterday we brought you about eight hours of streaming coverage, and we're hoping to give you at least that again today. We're going to be touring the South Hall, checking out a hover-drone outside, riding electric bikes, and of course providing all the colorful commentary you expect from our salty crew. If we're streaming something that doesn't pique your fancy, there's a whole selection of videos on demand — check out our coverage of Showstoppers last night, where we interviewed about a million people and checked out their devices. I liked the Plastic Logic Que the best, but Shapeways' new color fabrication is pretty awesome, too. Remember, we're streaming live over the cell network, so if it drops out just hang tight and it should be back within a few seconds as the signal returns.
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| Facebook Launches Fellowship Program To Promote Social Computing Research Posted: 08 Jan 2010 10:06 AM PST
Students chosen to receive a fellowship will have their tuition and fees paid for the entire academic year, a $30,000 stipend, $5,000 to spend towards a computer, and another $5,000 to pay for travel and conference fees. They’ll also have the chance to apply to a paid internship at Facebook for the following summer. Here are some of the areas Facebook says it is interested in:
Applications are due February 15, 2010, and the winners will be announced on March 29. You can find more details on eligibility at the site’s homepage. Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
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| Reframe It Raises $2.3 Million For Web Annotation Product Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:16 AM PST
Reframe It, a web annotation startup, has just raised $2.3 million in funding according to an SEC filing. Investors include The Sacramento Angels, the Sierra Angels, the North Bay Angels, the Silicon Valley Angels, Esther Dyson, Mark Walsh, John Schirer, Allen Miner and Daniel Zumino (Sierra and Sacramento led the round). Reframe It previously raised $700,000 from AD Gilhart & Co., and boasts an impressive advisory board which includes Dyson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Howard Rheingold. Reframe It is a browser plug-in and bookmarklet that lets you highlight passages of text on a Web page and add your own comments in a side pane. Reframe It also offers publishers branded, community that allows websites to enable white label web annotation integrated into the site. Comment can be private, public, or visible only to certain groups. Anyone with the Reframe It plug-in can then see those comments in their side pane as they browse the Web. Reframe It also has a Twitter-like social feature that lets you follow other people's comments, as well as comments within groups. And you can follow these comments in an RSS feed, which you can track in your blog reader or other services such as FriendFeed. To help get you started, Reframe It allows you to import your contacts from Gmail, Facebook, and (soon) LinkedIn and other services. The startup recently made waves when it claimed that Google’s recently launched web annotation product, Sidewiki, copied Reframe It’s model. Google denied the accusation and eWeek reported that Reframe It’s CEO Bobby Fishkin didn’t want to take legal action against Google, as the startup readies a new version of its product. Version 2.0 includes the ability to see a social, real-time feed (vs. a RSS feed) of your friends comments on a particular page. The new version is compatible with all browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
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