web 2.0

Why don't I know more about Demand Media? A "quiet" $200M company - with offices including Seattle (Trails.com) and in Bellevue.

Quoted: "Google finds the Long Tail," Rosenblatt said, referring to the Web industry term for less-popular content, "and we fill it."

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Some insight into how StumbleUpon works. Not too surprising.

Quoted: As you can see in the chart below, there are three key parts to the Recommendation Engine. There are pages from the topics you marked that interest you, socially endorsed pages and peer endorsed pages. Socially endorsed pages are the ones that users you have befriended on the site like, while peer endorsed pages are ones from users who have similar voting habits (giving a site the thumbs up or thumbs down) as you.

Quoted: Pogo is a 3D web browser created in collaboration between AT&T's business development group and Vizible. We weren't particularly impressed when we reviewed it a few months ago, but a new version has since been released. We previously noted... Pogo works like a regular browser, but it manages pages more visually. Instead of tabs, it has a scrollable

Kerry Rupp, Founder, came to visit us at StartPad today (possible future tenant).

Quoted: Group travel planning service for girlfriend getaway trips. We book unique trip experiences, including stylish accommodation, group activities and shopping/spa recommendations along various themes.

ReFave of a nice mention.

Quoted: Michael [Arrington] appears extra frustrated because like most of us he wants Delicious to succeed. As a matter of fact, he named Delicious one of the Web Apps you can't live without in 2006, but then dumped Delicious in 2007 for BlueDot (Now Faves.com) because they were surpassed when it came to features.
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While Yahoo has been asleep at the wheel, countless new social bookmarking services have pulled ahead of the once king of online favorites. The best of the bunch being Magnolia and Faves.

My college classmate's startup. It's a cool collaborative writing website, where you can contribute to other people's projects, or start your own and get people to help you.

Quoted: Channel your literary genius through WEbook, an online book publishing company that has turned the traditional print business inside-out. Achieve your long-awaited dream of publishing a book within this online studio lounge for writing intellectuals.

This list of valuations seems more reasonable than others I have seen.

Quoted: Putting a value on private companies is hard enough for insiders and venture capitalists who have full access to the company's financial statements. ...

Video demo of new site (private beta) Dropbox - synchronizes files from multiple computers, and makes your files available online (including being able to recover deleted files and versioning).