RSS feeds attract venture dollars
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Wanted to blog about this  but I'm about to walk out the door for the night.  "As the number of blogs, news services and other syndicated sources of online information balloons, a new crop of start-ups has emerged promising to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. And venture capitalists and veteran Internet investors Marc Andreessen and Ron Conway are right behind one of them."  "Rojo, a San Francisco start-up in the blog aggregation business, "is wrapping a communications capability around content consumption," said Andreessen, Web browser pioneer, Rojo investor and Opsware chairman. "And the killer app for the Internet is and always has been communication.""  ...  "Rojo founders Chris Alden, ...
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Newsgator, the RSS feed aggregator, has raised $12 million in a fifth round funding, PEHub reports. The round was led by Vista Ventures, with previous investors Mobius Venture Capital and Masthead Venture Partners participating as well. Newgator raised $7 million in a fourth round in the spring of 2006. Including this new financing, the Denver, CO-based company has raised a total of $29 million. The company will use the money to expand marketing and sales efforts in the United States, Europe and Japan, with the goal to become break-even as a company, it said. More in release.
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Get the scoop on these flexible investment vehicles.
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Padraic Brady has put together a very comprehensive post on his blog today about using the Zend_Feed component of the Zend Framework to help with the aggregation of content from other sites (like RSS and Atom feeds).   In this entry I explore Zend_Feed from the perspective of someone aggregating RSS and Atom feeds with a view to building a database of uniquely identified content for later presentation in a "Planet" style application. [...] In fact all we create here is a simple command line script to aggregate content frequently (e.g. just set up cron to run it every hour or so) into a database for later presentation.   He guides you through each step of the way:   Setting Up Database And Models The Aggregator Script Foundation Using Zend_Feed to get common data for RSS/Atom entries Putting It All Together   There's plenty of code (and SQL to insert) in the post and he explains each point well, helping to make the development process smoother. There's even a summary section to toss in a few extra bits of information just in case you missed them along the way.
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Companies make their best product pitches to journalists, venture capitalists, and merger and acquisition wonks.
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Developers can earn money by accepting AdSense advertisements for mobile devices.
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Green tech financiers share tips for spotting sustainable startups.
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Feedster Includes Kanoodle Ads in RSS Feeds  Feedster, Inc. today announced the launch of its RSS feed media program. The Company&rsquo;s RSS search feeds will soon contain context targeted ads from Kanoodle, Inc., a leading provider of sponsored links for search results and content pages. Alternatively searchers may opt to pay ...
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After rocky road to public offering, search engine proceeds--but what will it do with its windfall?
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A sneaky web service offers to get you to the front page of the popular news aggregator for $1 per digg. We'll see about that. By Annalee Newitz.
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Dow Jones Buying MarketWatch for $519 Million  Yes Virginia, there is money to be made in web publishing, especially stock market and trading news! The news will invigorate bloggers and news publishers everywhere. If you're read by a certain targeted market with money to spend, you can be worth something. Maybe ...
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Just as people currently use newsreaders to read syndicated text from blogs and news sites, a few hackers are creating applications that let users view syndicated video feeds. Think of it as TiVocasting. By Daniel Terdiman.
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By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post Staff Writer  Last month, venture capitalist Fred Wilson drew a lot of attention on the Internet when he declared a 21st century kind of bankruptcy.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Google announced Friday it bought FeedBurner, a Chicago-based company focused on distributing digital media through a technology known as RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.
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A venture capitalist in the nano sector is finding some nice pickings.
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Four years after the Internet bubble burst, the venture-capital industry is showing signs of growth.
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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is about sharing content with new audiences. Here, you'll learn how to replay feed content in your Web pages with RSS Replay, a Dreamweaver extension created by the author. By Ronald Northrip. 1018