Sat.Oct 20, 2007 - Fri.Oct 26, 2007

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Entity Extraction Firefox Plugin

SoCal CTO

After hearing at a recent CTO Forum meeting from Siderean about their relational navigation technology and various discussions with other folks on search, it's seeming like entity extraction is coming up everywhere. Today I saw John Udell's post Entity extraction everywhere. Through this post, I found Gnosis a Firefox plugin that will do entity extraction and highlight the resulting terms on the page.

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Microsoft invests in Facebook at $15 billion

Jason Ball

The Wall Street Journal has a good overview and recap of the negotiation process. Facebook is reported to have circa $150 million in revenue currently (and are launching their own advertising platform shortly). As a point of reference , Facebook’s revenue is worth 7.1x more on a price/sales basis than Google. Looking back at the last round of venture funding, Accel participated in the $25 million round at a whopping $500 million pre-money.

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Radiohead, freedom, artistry

aweissman.com

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 22, 2007. Radiohead, freedom, artistry. Over at Alley Insider, Peter Kafka waxes poetic about the Radioheads "In Rainbows" experiment, correctly recognizing that the import of this event is not how much money Radiohead made from releasing their album with a pay-what-you-want model, but instead: " Radiohead is likely to make a nice sum from "In Rainbows," but the real advantage that its giveaway stunt has co

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Nsyght- Social Search Bookmark Drive

Jason Ball

The guys over at Nsyght have asked that I help spread the word about their “bookmark drive”: Nsyght is building what we hope to be a new type of social search, a search that is directly driven and personalized by your bookmarks. What does that mean? It means we only search what you tell us to by the bookmarks you submit. The more bookmarks, the more pages and sites we crawl.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Tumblr Funding

Jason Ball

Union Square Ventures announced blogged their investment in Tumblr yesterday. I set up a Tumblr account in early summer and it’s been silently collecting all my posts from TechBytes, my posts from Twitter, delicious links and Flickr public photos. It does give a good “global” snapshot of my online activity- which is a good thing. I’ve been grappling with posting something on Twitter and posting on TechBytes- but Tumblr captures both.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SoCal CTO

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility.

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