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Update 2: Greg Linden has said he is no longer going to be maintaining Findory.com, his personalized-news recommendation service, and Richard MacManus over at Read/Write Web says that Talkr is looking to be acquired. Update: The Dead Pool rumour mill continues — Mike Arrington says there are reports that Insider Pages, a Web 2.0 recommendation [...]

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Let me cut you wacky kids a check

by Mathew on December 4, 2006 · View Comments

I’ve come across various versions of this story, but I still love hearing it: Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, gets asked by a couple of young kids from Stanford if he would look at their little Web search doo-dad, the one with a weird name. Halfway through a demo, Andy says [...]

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Facebook: a case study of Web success

by Mathew on November 7, 2006 · View Comments

If you’ve never come across Startup Review before, it’s a blog written by Nisan Gabbay, who until recently was an analyst with the venture capital group Sierra Ventures. Instead of short posts or gossip about startups, he does an in-depth case study of a company such as Craigslist every week or two, based on interviews [...]

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Here’s a Web 2.0 story for you: I got an email pitch from a guy named Kevin the other day, letting me know about the Web-based classified ad service that he and his buddy Chad put together in their spare time. Called Listifieds.com, it’s based in the thriving metropolis of Bowling Green, Kentucky (which I [...]

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SecondSite becomes FreshBooks

by Mathew on May 15, 2006 · View Comments

At the same time as we — that is, myself, Mark Evans, Rob Hyndman, Stuart MacDonald and Mike McDerment — have been organizing mesh (which is taking place today and tomorrow at MaRS in Toronto), Mike and his team at 2ndSite have been busy renaming their company and their product and getting ready to relaunch [...]

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