Quoted: Have you ever watched your car's odometer click over to 100,000 miles?  Remember that growing feeling of excitement?  That's what we're like over here at Sampa, where we're expecting to add our 100,00th website any day now.  We can't take our eyes off the little spinning dials. Now picture the old TV gag where someone is the lucky 100,000th customer

Quoted: VentureBeat is reporting that technology media startup PodTech has been sold to ViewPartner, a “communications technology company” , for less than half a million dollars. PodTech is perhaps best known for the long tech videos produced by blogger Robert Scoble, who left the company last December to work for Fast Company. He was originally snagged from

Heh.

Quoted: New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni details his frustrating experience trying to find restaurants in New York using Urbanspoon's new restaurant locator application for the iPhone.
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Asked about the review, Urbanspoon founder Ethan Lowry says he is "pretty happy that (Bruni) spent half his weekend playing around with Urbanspoon."

Quoted: BlogHer, an online network of female bloggers, has announced a partnership with iVillage and Women@NBCU, a new content and marketing intiative by NBC Universal. The partnership includes a $5 million Series B round led by Peacock Equity (a fund run by NBC Universal and GE) along with previous investor Venrock Capital. iVillage, Oxygen.com, and BravoTV.com

I thought no-zooming in Whrrl was a bug too. I hope they get this feature soon.

Quoted: Seems the top complaint so far is that our map doesn’t zoom. We know. It was a hard decision but we made some implementation choices early on that ended us up on a “you cannot get there from here” spot on performance of the map when zooming so we disabled it for the first release.

Quoted: The husband and wife behind BallHype and ShowHype, two Digg clones that focus on baseball and entertainment news, have earned a modest pay day: $3 million from media group Future US. That’s not bad given the two never raised institutional funding since launching the first site (BallHype) in April 2007. Users of BallHype and ShowHype (which launched

Quoted: Updated Are you tired of jumping from emails to instant messages to text messages, depending on who you’re talking to? A company called Chatterous feels your pain, and according to VentureWire, the Seattle startup has raised a small amount of angel funding (less than $500,000) to help. There are other startups taking on this problem, but usually

Northwest Innovation interviews Max.

Quoted: “Oh, you are on Best Buy, and this is the product you want to buy.” And you can review the product, insert your own comments and add it to your Wishpot. It’s a semantic bookmark. That’s where the magic is.

Useful.

Quoted: OpenTable, the San Francisco company that lets you make online reservations at any of 8,500 restaurants, said it it is seating three million diners a month, which means it’s making some serious cash — in the multiple millions of dollars a month, based on back-of-the-envelope math. The company also has released mobile version